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“You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“For the first time in years the tears were streaming down his face. But they were for himself now. He did not care about mouth and eyes and moving hands. He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back any more. The gates were closed, the sun was gone down, and there was no beauty but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.
"Long ago," he said, "long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.”
― Winter Dreams
"Long ago," he said, "long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.”
― Winter Dreams
“The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
― An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
― An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
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