Susan

“I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did it, all at once, without anyone knowing beforehand. If there had still been portable money, it would have been more difficult.
It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics at the time.
I was stunned. Everyone was, I know that. It was hard to believe, the entire government gone like that. How did they get in, how did it happen?
That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“We are afraid of dying alone, but no one really knows lonely better than a married woman sitting next to her silent husband.”
― Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Is being happy worth it? And the answer is absolutely, unequivocally, yes.”
― Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life