" ... I have ceased to care about anything. I have no personal ambition, or even the desire that people call me nice, or pretty, or witty. Nor do I have any use for sensation, nor do I care. Cessation. It is a technical circle, encircling, cycle, of giving the body to be burned, but having no charity.

... What can I do? For without love I am truly dead. "

― Elizabeth Smart , On the Side of the Angels: The Second Volume of the Journals of Elizabeth Smart