“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“...I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain. And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium, and suffering, it struck me that most of use were probably seeking, above else, something like a state of grace.”
― Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
― Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
“A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women. Not that your father wasn't a nice guy and all, but... there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like they can't quite remember who they are. They look at the sky too much. They lose touch with their feet. They aren't a patch on a woman except they're better at fixing cars and playing football, just what we need for the improvement of the human race, right?”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
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