Offred

"Love, I would have said, but what did I know?"

"I pin my hair to my head."

"The day stretches ahead, moment by moment."

"I could not leave the room."

"My name is not Offred."

"I must keep myself in readiness."

"Telling stories is a way of having power."

"Hope is a risk."

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

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

"I am not her nor am I you. I am a walking womb, but I am not the womb"

"I want to be valued, to be worth something"

"The night is mine, my own time"

"Context is everything"

"I used to think of my body as an instrument of my pleasure"

"I am not a doll, I am not a doll"

"The real problem is we had no better options"

"Love is what I want, not what is given"

"Fear tastes like metal"

"Women are communicative, we are trained for that"

"I want Luke. I want to be with Luke again"

"History is a matter of point of view"

"I must be very careful about what I wish for"

"Survival is not victory"

"The regime is not one thing, it is thousands of things"

"I recognize the corners of this room"

"These are the days of chaos and the days of order"

"A voice is power"

"Hope is a dangerous thing"

"I have become one with the furniture"