Quote by Offred

"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the gaps between the stories."

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

"I am not her. I am myself."

"The Republic of Gilead, I said. And felt, rather than heard, a kind of silence, like static."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

"Literature opens the mind to new worlds"

"The interesting thing about books is that they're made of words."

"Literature captures the essence of what it means to be human."