Since God will not protect us, we must protect ourselves if we can find the means.' 'God! there is no God.

At times I have doubted the gods of my people and turned to yours; now I renounce and reject Him.

If there were a God of mercy such as you cling to, could He suffer that such things be?
You are my god, husband, to you and for you I pray, and you alone.

Let us have done now with pleading to those who are not, or who, if they live, are deaf to our cries and blind to our misery, and befriend ourselves.
Yonder lies rope, that window has bars, very soon we can be beyond the sun and the cruelty of Teules, or sound asleep.

But there is time yet; let us talk a while, they will scarcely begin their torments before the dawn, and ere dawn we shall be far.' So we talked as well as my sufferings would allow.