The Testaments

“Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.”

—GEORGE ELIOT, DANIEL DERONDA

“When we look one another in the face, we’re neither of us just looking at a face we hate—no, we’re gazing into a mirror…. Do you really not recognize yourselves in us…?”

—OBERSTURMBANNFÜHRER LISS TO OLD BOLSHEVIK MOSTOVSKOY, VASILY GROSSMAN, LIFE AND FATE

“Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake…. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.”

—URSULA K. LE GUIN, THE TOMBS OF ATUAN