Quotes from The Testaments. Ms. Sandra Silva by Erika Nieto Wenzell https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu Describe the context of the Quotes en-us 2020-12-07 04:36:25 UTC 2020-12-07 04:36:25 UTC hello@padlet.com "Hanging from a belt around my waist is a taser. Thisweapon reminds me of my failings: had I been more effective, Iwould not have needed such an implement." Chapter 1 enieto8 https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu/wish/992809920 2020-12-07 04:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu/wish/992809920 "Whatever our shapes and features, we were snares and enticements despite ourselves, we were the innocent and blameless causes that through our very nature could make men drunk with lust, so that they’d stagger and lurch and topple over the verge" Chapter 2 enieto8 https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu/wish/992809922 2020-12-07 04:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu/wish/992809922 "I’ve become swollen with power, true, but also nebulous with it—formless, shape-shifting. I am everywhere and nowhere: even in the minds of the Commanders I cast an unsettling shadow. How can I regain myself? How to shrink back to my normal size, the size of an ordinary woman?" Chapter 6 enieto8 https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu/wish/992809924 2020-12-07 04:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu/wish/992809924 "I’d basically disliked Baby Nicole since I’d had to do a paper on her. I’d got a C because I’d said she was being used as a football by both sides, and it would be the greatest happiness of the greatest number just to give her back." enieto8 https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu/wish/992809925 Chapter 8]]> 2020-12-07 04:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu/wish/992809925 "I know too much about the leaders—too much dirt—and they are uncertain as to what I may have done with it in the way of documentation. If they string me up, will that dirt somehow be leaked? They might well suspect I’ve taken back up precautions, and they would be right." enieto8 https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu/wish/992809926 Chapter 12]]> 2020-12-07 04:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu/wish/992809926 "Her name was Ofkyle, since my father’s name was Commander Kyle. “Her name would have been something else earlier,” said Shunammite. “Some other man’s. They get passed around until they have a baby. They’re all sluts anyway, they don’t need real names.”Chapter 15 enieto8 https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu/wish/992809927 2020-12-07 04:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu/wish/992809927 "Aunt Estee […] always put things in a positive light. That was a talent women had because of their special brains, which were not hard and focused like the brains of men but soft and damp and warm and enveloping, like…like what? [Aunt Estee]didn’t finish the sentence.Like warmed-up mud in the sun, I thought. That what was inside my head: warmed-up mud." Chapter 16 enieto8 https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu/wish/992809928 2020-12-07 04:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu/wish/992809928 "The truth was that they’d cut Crystal open to get the baby out, and they’d killed her by doing that. It wasn’t something she chose. She hadn’t volunteered to die with noble womanly honor or be a shining example, but nobody mentioned that" Chapter 18 enieto8 https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu/wish/992809929 2020-12-07 04:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu/wish/992809929 "To pass the time I berated myself. Stupid, stupid, stupid: I’d believed all that claptrap about life, liberty, democracy, and the rights of the individual I’d soaked up at law school. There were eternal verities and we would always defend them. I’d depended on that as if on a magical charm." Chapter 20 enieto8 https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu/wish/992809930 2020-12-07 04:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/enieto8/5xluftj7o6mupedu/wish/992809930