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

by Margaret Atwood

It wasn’t something she chose. She hadn’t volunteered to die with noble womanly honour or be a shining example, but nobody mentioned that.

“Those women need to do their duty to the Divine Plan like the rest of us,” said Aunt Vidala. “Life is not a vacation.”

You hold it in, whatever it is, until you can make it through the worst part. Then, once you’re safe, you can cry all the tears you couldn’t waste time crying before.

The world was no longer solid and dependable, it was porous and deceptive. Anything could disappear.

I note here that lively was a word the Wives used in a disapproving way: it meant brash.

Just seemking alive is too much for a woman

She really did believe that marriage would obliterate her. She would be crushed, she would be nullified, she would be melted like snow until nothing remained of her.

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As someone once said, We must all hang together or we will all hang separately.

Under some conditions, smiling is a workout.

Patience is a virtue. Vengeance is mine.