#The Testaments

You’d be surprised how quickly the mind goes soggy in the absence of other people. One person alone is not a full person:

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Where there is an emptiness, the mind will obligingly fill it up. Fear is always at hand to supply any vacancies, as

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Think of me as a guide. Think of yourself as a wanderer in a dark wood. It’s about to get darker.

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Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. Having no friends, I must make do with enemies.

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The adult female body was one big booby trap as far as I could tell. If there was a hole, something was bound to be shoved

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How tedious is a tyranny in the throes of enactment. It’s always the same plot.

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We’re stretched thin, all of us; we vibrate; we quiver, we’re always on the alert. Reign of terror, they used to say, but

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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

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