The Handmaid's Tale
Quotes from The Handmaid's Tale
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"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the gaps between the stories."Offred Truth
"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum"Offred
"Beauty is always dangerous"Offred Beauty
"I am still alive, I am still alive"Offred Strength
"We lived like that before and we lived like this after"Offred Time
"The future is a country we must discover"Offred Adventure
"Memory is a form of power"Offred Power
"I could have said no, but I said yes"Offred
"The Handmaids are the only ones left who can reproduce"The Commander Politics
"We are human beings but we have no rights"Offred Justice
"Ceremony is a ritual"Serena Joy Faith
"Language is how we make meaning"Offred Literature
"There are times when I want to die, but not now"Offred Courage
"Touch and be touched, that is the only real prayer"Offred Relationships
"We were not in control"Offred Power
"Ignorance is not innocence but it looks like it"Offred Knowledge
"I try to imagine what it was like before"Offred
"We were not prepared for this"Offred Change
"The world was new then"Offred
"I have become one with the furniture"Offred
"Hope is a dangerous thing"Offred Hope
"A voice is power"Offred Power
"These are the days of chaos and the days of order"Offred Change
"I recognize the corners of this room"Offred Time
"The regime is not one thing, it is thousands of things"Offred Politics
"Survival is not victory"Offred Perseverance
"I must be very careful about what I wish for"Offred Wisdom
"There are two kinds of freedom, freedom to and freedom from"Moira Freedom
"History is a matter of point of view"Offred History
"I want Luke. I want to be with Luke again"Offred Love