“Once a story you’ve regarded as true has turned false, you begin suspecting all stories.”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
“The muscles of my face were beginning to hurt. Under some conditions, smiling is a workout.”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
“I, too, was once like you: fatally hooked on life.”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
“But it can put a lot of pressure on a person to be told they need to be strong.”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
“Once you kill another human being there is no going back… it’s a bit like being reborn, I suppose. But no ordinary birth—it’s a metamorphosis. What emerges from the ashes is not a phoenix, but an uglier creature: deformed, incapable of flight, a predator using its claws to cut and rip.”
― The Maidens
― The Maidens
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