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“Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“In fact, there is no such thing as character, something fixed and final. The real thing is something that novelists don’t know how to write about. Or, if they tried, the end result would never be a novel. Real people are strangely difficult to make sense out of. Even a god would have his hands full trying. But maybe I’m jumping to conclusions, presuming that other people are a mess just because I’m put together in such a disorderly way. If so, I should apologize.”
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“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
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