The Handmaid's Tale

"There's nothing new in this world except the history you don't know"

"Better never means better for everyone"

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

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

"Things we aren't supposed to know prolong our lives."

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

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

"Ordinary is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will."

"All flesh is grass."

"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."

"There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from."

"I feel like the word shatter."

"A woman is her ovaries."

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

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

"I am dying of thirst."

"There is something subversive about this garden."

"I know what's really going on."

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

"She has become a vessel, nothing more."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I want to scream, to howl."

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

"Mother, I think. Wherever you are."

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