The Handmaid's Tale

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

"I am neither a woman nor a man, but something that was once there."

"What's left to me? Nothing."

"I dream of perfume, music, my old name."

"There is only one commander here worth anything."

"I thought he was weak. I thought I could depend on that."

"I'll do anything to stay alive, I said."

"What I must present is a made face, a cool surface."

"The tulips are opening."

"We're not supposed to know anything except what they tell us."

"I remember my name."

"It's not the husbands you have to worry about."

"I am not alone. I am not in the dark anymore."

"He pulls me close and whispers into my hair."

"What happened to the others? I ask myself, who were we before?"

"I am not sterile. That's one of the things I've retained."

"The distance between here and there is also a distance in time."

"We learned to whisper almost without sound."

"You're a person until they say you're not."

"I know why there are no mirrors. It's not because of the mirrors."

"I don't want him to see me. He must not see me."

"His body is bulk, his hands thick and stubbed-fingered."

"I'm afraid. It shows on my face."

"The world is full of men we don't know."

"I don't want to be here, in my head, alone."

"What they are is dangerous. But so am I."

"Semen is composed of salt and bitterness."

"I sit in the chair and think about how to live a life that doesn't involve waiting."

"He puts his hand on my knee. His other hand is on my leg."

"We were a society dying, said Moira, of too much choice."