“If they have to die, let it be fast. 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
“I don't want to be telling this story.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance. If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending to the story, and real life will come after it.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“But a chair, sunlight, flowers: these are not to be dismissed. I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight. Where I am is not a prison but a privilege.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“I don't have to tell anything, to myself or to anyone else. I could just sit here, peacefully. I could withdraw. It's possible to go so far in, so far down and back, they could never get you out.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
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