We have learned to see the world in gasps.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seen—to be seen—is to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

Beneath every fear lies the pearl of hope.