“Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts.
The danger is grayout.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
The danger is grayout.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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