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

by Margaret Atwood

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

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

Totalitarianisms may crumble from within, as they fail to keep the promises that brought them to power; or they may be attacked from without; or both.