"The Testaments" Quotes
"The Testaments" by Margaret Atwood: In a dystopian society, three women's lives become intertwined as they navigate the oppressive regime of Gilead.
fiction | 422 pages | Published in 2019
Quotes
Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.
The truth can cause a lot of trouble for those who are not supposed to know it.
I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
Purity is a thing for the gods alone.
You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.
Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.
The moment I confessed she was no longer a child, she was no longer a child.
It doesn't matter who's to blame, although of course it does, because that's always the first question that comes to mind: who's to blame?
How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation.
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
