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// If you've never had a faith, you will not understand what that means. You feel as if your best friend is dying; that everything that defined you is being burned away; that you'll be left all alone. You feel exiled, as if you are lost in a dark wood. It was like the feeling I'd had when Tabitha died: the world was emptying itself of meaning.
Everything was hollow. Everything was withering. //

// Being able to read and write did not provide the answers to all questions. It led to other questions, and then to others. //

// Where there is an emptiness, the mind will obligingly fill it up.
Fear is always at hand to supply any vacancies, as is curiosity. //

// Divide and conquer would be my motto.
Keep steady, I told myself. Don't share too much about yourself, it will be used against you. Listen carefully. Save all clues. Don't show fear. //

//All that was necessary was a law degree and a uterus: a lethal combination.//