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

by Margaret Atwood

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

Such a cruel thing, memory. We can’t remember what it is that we’ve forgotten. That we have been made to forget. That we’ve had to forget, in order to pretend to live here in any normal way.