Offred

"Knowledge is power."

"I'm alive, I'm alive. But there's no blindness here."

"The world has changed; I am the same, but the world has changed around me."

"My name is Offred, but that's not really my name."

"I think about my daughter; I wait and I don't know for what."

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

"I am not a free woman."

"The past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes."

"She doesn't know if she is happy or not."

"I used to think of my body as an instrument of pleasure, or a means of transportation."

"I feel very tender, raw, like a newborn."

"Fear tastes like metal."

"Lying in bed in the dark with Luke had not been adultery."

"I'm not a dead yet."

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

"She has been obliterated; she has been replaced."

"Survival is a privilege."

"I understand now that the pleasure of their company is punishment."

"Mother, I think. Wherever you are."

"There are things I regret, things I would like to unsay, unknow."

"I want to scream, to howl."

"Freedom, I realize, is more than the absence of chains."

"I wait. I don't know for what."

"Doctors are not supposed to, but some do."

"I didn't know what would happen to her."

"I would not like to think that no one came."

"In the dark, I feel him move inside me. It's not passion. It's a battle."

"She has become a vessel, nothing more."

"I am still alive. I can still think."

"There is something subversive about this garden."