Offred

"I am dying of thirst."

"I want to be valued, in the way that wives are valued."

"I feel like the word shatter."

"I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will."

"I'm sorry, I have to stop and explain. You're probably wondering about my life before."

"I couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't do it as a body."

"We were the people who were passing the playing field"

"I'm alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight"

"I could have said no. I didn't say no"

"We lived as we always lived, as human beings do, in the continuation of everyday life"

"One more time"

"She was my mother but she never liked me"

"Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."

"I am not her dead body."

"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print."

"Context is all."

"I am not your justification for existence."

"It's when I'm trapped that I can think."

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

"Give me some sign that you remember us as we were."

"We are for breeding purposes: we are two-legged wombs."

"I'm alive, I'm alive, inside this moment."

"The eye of God sees everything, the Commander said, but I felt I could give the lie to that."

"I dream the world without us."

"You don't know how many times I've listened to these words."

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

"Everything I value is tied to freedom."

"I wait in the chair."

"I am not a creature of the state."

"Who shall I suppose I am?"