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

by Margaret Atwood

Why did I think it would nonetheless be business as usual? Because we’d been hearing these things for so long, I suppose. You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

A BIRD OF THE AIR SHALL CARRY THE VOICE, AND THAT WHICH HATH WINGS SHALL TELL THE MATTER. LOVE IS AS STRONG AS DEATH.

The television series has respected one of the axioms of the novel: no event is allowed into it that does not have a precedent in human history.