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“Each has a placard hung around his neck to show why he has been executed: a drawing of a human fetus. They were doctors, then, in the time before, when such things were legal. Angel makers, they used to call them; or was that something else? They’ve been turned up now by the searches through hospital records, or—more likely, since most hospitals destroyed such records once it became clear what was going to happen—by informants: ex-nurses perhaps, or a pair of them, since evidence from a single woman is no longer admissible; or another doctor, hoping to save his own skin; or someone already accused, lashing out at an enemy, or at random, in some desperate bid for safety. Though informants are not always pardoned.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Language creates possibility. Sometimes by being used. Sometimes by being kept secret.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“Why did parents perform all these un-repayable acts? Was it because they felt guilty for bringing us here in the first place?”
― Rachel Khong, Real Americans

“As a parent, she had sought to do the opposite of what her mother had done - not expecting Nick to resemble her, not burdening him with her expectations. And yet was she any different? Could love between a mother and child be anything less than completely overwhelming?”
― Rachel Khong, Real Americans