Offred

"What I must present is a made face, a cool surface."

"I'll do anything to stay alive, I said."

"I thought he was weak. I thought I could depend on that."

"There is only one commander here worth anything."

"I dream of perfume, music, my old name."

"What's left to me? Nothing."

"I am neither a woman nor a man, but something that was once there."

"Better never means better for everyone, it always means worse for some."

"I'm alive, I live, I have a body, I can walk around in it."

"I wish you all a good morning, and good luck."

"We were the people who were not in the papers."

"She doesn't come right out and say she lied. She doesn't have to."

"Ignorance is bliss they say, and it's true."

"I can't help the dreams that come to me."

"The way they've taken away our jobs, our money."

"I feel a tremor in the earth."

"The republic of Gilead, I said, was founded on a fantasy."

"You can't help it, the way desire works."

"I want to be valued, in the world, and in bed."

"A ritual, that's all it was, a moment of playacting."

"I'm not sure what I believe anymore."

"We lived, as usual, by ignoring."

"I'm not going to leave this place. There's nowhere else to go."

"The body is not a democracy."

"I don't want to learn this lesson, but I am learning it anyway."

"She reaches out and touches my veil."

"Fear is what I have instead of hope."

"I am not her but I take her place."

"What happened to them anyway?"

"I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling myself."