I was thinking about what I might do afterwards.
For many young people the fear isn't about saying the words, it's what might happen afterwards.
As the Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim said recently, a good novel about the revolution would need to have "a firm grasp of the past, the present moment, and the future — what will happen, or what might happen afterwards.
"A novel takes time," he explained, and a good novel "would have to have a firm grasp of the past, the present moment, and the future — what will happen, or what might happen afterwards.
She has a constitutional role to play, but you don't want anyone to be in a world where they might say afterwards: well, the Queen favoured this party or that party, or that particular type of solution rather than this solution".
According to the Washington Post, representatives from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice RCRCC) and the NGO, Centre for Health and Gender Equity, argued at a summit in Washington on Thursday that when Yazidi, Iraqi, Nigerian and Syrian women are systematically raped, the abortions that they might seek afterwards are not for "family planning purposes".
It's not that they can't do it, only a tiny number say that, it's just that we don't know how to go about it, how to start to process on the right track and then stop it once it's done, how to handle what might happen afterwards.
You didn't think about what it would be like to take a life, or how it might feel afterwards.
