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Your favourite quotes from The Testaments

Since it first came out in September 2019, The Testaments has become a worldwide bestseller and won the Booker Prize. We've picked out and designed some of your favourite quotes for you to download and share with your friends, use as a screensaver, phone or online meeting background.

Photograph of The Testaments paperback edition against white background
The Testaments paperback edition

All these quotes are said by the inimitable, ruthless Aunt Lydia. You can download them all as a .zip file containing different sizes, here. 

Praise be!

I'm aware of the risk I'm running: writing can be dangerous

pen and dagger / pen and fist illsutration

All things come to she who waits

target illustration

In times like ours there are only two directions: up or plummet

falling illustration

How easily a hand becomes a fist

fist illustration

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