The Handmaid's Tale

"We're not supposed to know this."

"She knew I couldn't stay. She knew it was time."

"Don't let the bastards grind you down."

"I've stopped taking my pills. I don't even know why."

"I'm hungry. They're always hungry."

"Context is all."

"They used to be able to shut you up with a kiss."

"I'm not going to think about that."

"She didn't love me. She couldn't have."

"The key to my new life is not in my hands."

"I wonder who they've made of me?"

"I used to think of my body as an instrument of pleasure. It's funny how quickly those feelings disappear."

"It's hard to imagine now, how we lived then."

"A rat in a wall makes the same sound, but is it your fault?"

"Now we walkslinkingly, quickly, with our eyes down, through the aisle of the supermarket."

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

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

"He didn't even have the elementary good manners God gave to stones."

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

"I am not her. I am myself. But that doesn't seem to matter."

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

"The Republic of Gilead, I said to myself. Gileadean. It has a literary sound to it. Almost biblical."

"We didn't get to know each other in any of the ways that matter."

"But I must not despair. Despair is a sin."

"I would like to believe I was of importance once."

"These are not words. These are not supposed to be words."

"The worst part is the doubt. Not that they're lying, but whether they're lying."

"We lived, but not really."

"I am not her. I am not even my own."

"Blood flows on the wall, or seems to."