The Handmaid's Tale

"I thought once I was competent but that's been taken from me."

"The trouble is I can no longer believe in endings."

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

"What happened to them anyway?"

"I am not her but I take her place."

"Fear is what I have instead of hope."

"She reaches out and touches my veil."

"I don't want to learn this lesson, but I am learning it anyway."

"The body is not a democracy."

"I'm not going to leave this place. There's nowhere else to go."

"There's no place in this world for people who are weak."

"We lived, as usual, by ignoring."

"You can't put a Stopit to ambition."

"I'm not sure what I believe anymore."

"A ritual, that's all it was, a moment of playacting."

"We are two-legged wombs, that's all."

"I want to be valued, in the world, and in bed."

"You can't help it, the way desire works."

"The republic of Gilead, I said, was founded on a fantasy."

"Praise be to the Lord for his infinite wisdom."

"I feel a tremor in the earth."

"The way they've taken away our jobs, our money."

"I can't help the dreams that come to me."

"Ignorance is bliss they say, and it's true."

"Nature demands variety, for men at least."

"She doesn't come right out and say she lied. She doesn't have to."

"A man is just a woman who has gone to seed."

"We were the people who were not in the papers."

"I wish you all a good morning, and good luck."

"I'm alive, I live, I have a body, I can walk around in it."