“The tulips along the border are redder than ever, opening, no longer winecups but chalices; thrusting themselves up, to what end? They are, after all, empty. When they are old they turn themselves inside out, then explode slowly, the petals thrown out like shards.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“By telling you anything at all I’m at least believing in you, I believe you’re there, I believe you into being. Because I’m telling you this story I will your existence. I tell therefore you are.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“This is a reconstruction. All of it is a reconstruction.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“We are the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edge of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
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