The Handmaid's Tale

"Better never means better for everyone"

"I am not obliged to feel the same way about people who are not obliged to feel anything about me."

"Hope is dangerous."

"I remember my name. It's Offred."

"The past is a dim lamp, its halo of light barely extending beyond its own flame."

"Survival is an act of rebellion."

"The night is mine, my own time, to do with as I will."

"I need to know what I can touch."

"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used."

"A whore is a whore, that's what you are."

"Give me children, or else I die."

"I console myself with the knowledge that this can't go on forever."

"It's a long time since I've been touched without violence."

"The key to a successful such union is the ability of the man to ignore the woman."

"I am not my own body."

"Love is what I would miss, I think, if I were dead."

"There are things I can do that you can't do, Jane."

"I wait. I am waiting. It's all I can do."

"Let her write, scribble, scratch the walls in frustration."

"A person is flesh and blood, and blood will tell."

"I don't want to sound like a whore."

"The ones we worked on, if we can use the word worked."

"I feel like a human being, for the first time in weeks."

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

"Out, damned spot. Out I say."

"She doesn't talk much. Why should she? She's gone beyond words."

"I could not tell what her face was like; she had a good body though."

"It's impossible for me to imagine how I will feel when I'm not doing this anymore."

"I stand in front of the store window and watch my reflection move."

"Knowing was power, but not knowing was a kind of power too."