Now that I am dead, I know everything. - Margaret Atwood

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

Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.

It's the end of the world every day, for someone.