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

by Margaret Atwood

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

Psalms 90:4-6

“Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.”

Proverbs 31:10

Innocent men denying their guilt sound exactly like guilty men, as I am sure you have noticed, my reader. Listeners are inclined to believe neither.