The Handmaid's Tale

"I could not see my feet anymore. I felt like a seal."

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

"I wonder whether they enjoy it. I think about that sometimes."

"You can't help your thoughts, only your actions."

"A woman is her ovaries."

"I want to be with him in bed, in the dark."

"The year before the catastrophe, I didn't pay enough attention."

"I felt as if I was being tested. I'm still not sure for what."

"The night is my time out. Where should I go?"

"I want to be in love. I want it to be with him."

"There is more than one kind of freedom. 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."

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

"Waiting is different from wanting."

"I'm thirty-three years old. My name is not Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it's forbidden."

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

"I would like to believe this is not the world we deserve."

"I don't know where I am."

"I'm terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me."

"I have tried to be perfect."

"Deny nothing, accept everything."

"She didn't really love her, she just thought she should."

"I try not to think of anything."

"Love and trust."

"I used to have a life."

"Things have not been the same since."

"I am a national resource."

"Why do we allow it, then?"

"It was not safe, to say or even think such things."

"I hope nothing bad will happen to me."