The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

by Margaret Atwood

You can be angry at dead people, but you can never have a conversation about what they did;

You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

Time, however, is different when you’re shut up in the dark alone. It’s longer. Nor do you know when you’re asleep and when awake.

Where there is an emptiness, the mind will obligingly fill it up.

terror does not exactly reign. Instead it paralyzes.

“No one wants to die,” said Becka. “But some people don’t want to live in any of the ways that are allowed.”

If you’ve never had a faith, you will not understand what that means. You feel as if your best friend is dying; that everything that defined you is being burned away; that you’ll be left all alone.

The truth can cause a lot of trouble for those who are not supposed to know it.

how easily a hand becomes a fist.

history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

one mysterious box, when opened, so often conceals another.