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

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

1 " I took care not to react. It’s a skill, not reacting. "

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

2 " much latitude is given by those in power to professionals who can relieve them of pain. The doctors, the dentists, the lawyers, the accountants: in the new world of Gilead, as in the old, their sins are frequently forgiven them. "

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

3 " The floods, the fires, the tornadoes, the hurricanes, the droughts, the water shortages, the earthquakes. [...] Why did I think it would nonetheless be business as usual? Because we’d been hearing these things for so long, I suppose. You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you "

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

4 " I never made dough women, because after they were baked I would eat them, and that made me feel I had a secret power over men. "

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

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

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

6 " I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices. "

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

7 " 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. "

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

8 " Nobody is any authority of the fucks other people give. "

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

9 " I had not been exposed to these kinds of situations, so this event was not trivial to me. Instead it was horrifying. It was also shameful: when a shameful thing is done to you, the shamefulness rubs off on you. You feel dirtied. "

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

10 " There’s something spine-stiffening about uniforms, about insignia, about shiny lapel pins. "

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

11 " Commander Judd is a great believer in the restorative powers of young women, as were King David and assorted Central American drug lords "

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

12 " Nyttemmin kadonneessa entisessä maassani oli kaikki mennyt alamäkeä vuosikaudet. Tulvia, tulipaloja, rajumyrskyjä, hurrikaaneja, kuivuuskausia, vesipulaa, maanjäristyksiä. Liian paljon yhtä ja liian vähän toista. Kunnallistekniikka oli romahtamaisillaan - miksi kukaan ei ollut purkanut atomireaktoreja ennen kuin oli liian myöhäistä? Talouskriisi, työttömyys, syntyvyyden lasku.

Ihmiset säikähtivät. Sitten he suuttuivat.

Tehokkaita lääkkeitä ei ollut. Tarvittiin syntipukki.

Miksi luulin, että kaikki siitä huolimatta jatkuisi entiseen tapaan? Siksi kai, että näistä asioista oli puhuttu niin pitkään. Sitä ei tahdo uskoa, että taivas putoaa niskaan, ennen kuin saa murikan päähänsä. "

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

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

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

14 " As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. "

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

15 " Once a story you’ve regarded as true has turned false, you begin suspecting all stories. "

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

16 " The truth can cause a lot of trouble for those who are not supposed to know it. "

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

17 " 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. "

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

18 " And how easily a hand becomes a fist. "

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

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

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

20 " Being able to read and write did not provide answers to all questions. It led to other questions, and then to others. "

― Margaret Atwood , The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)