Sarah arrives at an important realization—arguably one of the most important messages of the book—that hate, more often than not, is rooted in love. For example, Sarah admits that there were times that she hated Bendrix. But that hatred would never have existed if she hadn’t learned to love him first; the hatred itself was a result of frustration with the fact that his jealousy limited her freedom and prevented them from being happy together, as shown in the beginning of Sarah’s diary when she likened his jealousy to a “medieval chastity belt.” It seems, then, that Sarah may be considering hatred as a path toward love; if she could hate God, then maybe she could love him too.