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“Our time together is drawing short, my reader. Possibly you will view these pages of mine as a fragile treasure box, to be opened with the utmost care. Possibly you will tear them apart, or burn them: that often happens to words. Perhaps you’ll be a student of history, in which case I hope you’ll make something useful of me: a warts-and-all portrait, a definitive account of my life and times, suitably footnoted; though if you don’t accuse me of bad faith I will be astonished. Or, in fact, not astonished: I will be dead, and the dead are hard to astonish.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Sorry solves nothing”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“At the time I thought, Why cry, you should be happy, you got out. But after all that’s happened to me since that day, I understand why. You hold it in, whatever it is, until you can make it through the worst part. Then, once you’re safe, you can cry all the tears you couldn’t waste time crying before.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Do you think anyone will believe it?” Aunt Elizabeth asked. “They will believe whatever is in the best interests of Ardua Hall,” I said firmly. “Which is the same as their own best interests.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments