• Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.

    Margaret Atwood: Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.
    Margaret Atwood (2016). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.352, Random House