The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
“As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
“Once a story you’ve regarded as true has turned false, you begin suspecting all stories.”
“You’d be surprised how quickly the mind goes soggy in the absence of other people. One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others. I was one person: I risked becoming no person.”
“The truth can cause a lot of trouble for those who are not supposed to know it.”
“And how easily a hand becomes a fist.”
“No one wants to die,” said Becka. “But some people don’t want to live in any of the ways that are allowed.”
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one most travelled by. It was littered with corpses, as such roads are. But as you will have noticed, my own corpse is not among them.”
“Being able to read and write did not provide answers to all questions. It led to other questions, and then to others.”
“The inventor of the mirror did few of us any favours: we must have been happier before we knew what we looked like.”
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