The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale

The unfortunate girl was found wandering the streets in despair, since the map was inaccurate and the Mayday contacts turned out not to exist.

Our time was filled, but in a strange way it did not seem to pass.

as if Latin could have more effect than English.

I thought the dress looked like a lampshade, but it was my plan to appear cheerful and appreciative.

In my end is my beginning, as someone once said. Who was that? Mary, Queen of Scots, if history does not lie.

A coming baby shed lustre on everyone connected with it.

to, but the past was too dark. Such a cruel thing, memory. We can’t remember what it is that we’ve forgotten. That we have been made to forget. That we’ve had to forget, in order to pretend to live here in any normal way.

soundproofed cellar, she said, which used to be for things like piano practising. But now the R cellar was where Aunt Vidala did the Corrections. Corrections were a kind of punishment, for straying beyond the rules.

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