The Handmaid's Tale

"There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power."

"I am not happy. I am far from happy. But I am alive."

"I wonder who he is thinking of."

"We lived, as usual, by ignoring."

"The problem is I can't believe in it anymore."

"Expect nothing."

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

"Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it."

"Some days I feel so tired I can't move."

"This is not to my taste."

"The war cannot be fought by women."

"I want to be valued, in the way that a tree is valued."

"You can't help it. None of us can help it. It's in the nature of things."

"I'm alive. I'm still alive."

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

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

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

"I am grateful for small mercies."

"The real torture is wondering what happens next."

"I have become a serf, a concubine, a thing."

"This is what I chose and I have to live with it."

"I want to show her something but I don't know what."

"One day we'll have a baby, and everything will be different."

"I don't know how we should be."

"The nights are the worst because then I'm alone."

"I would like to go back to the time before."

"There is a certain amount of grace in accepting your lot."

"Memory is what I have instead of time."

"I am becoming the worst version of myself."

"This is not the real world."