“Fake it, I scream at myself inside my head. You must remember how. Let’s get this over with or you’ll be here all night. Bestir yourself. Move your flesh around, breathe audibly. It’s the least you can do.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“Money was the only measure of worth, for everyone, they got no respect as mothers.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“As long as we’re rejecting ourselves and causing harm to our bodies and minds, there’s no point in talking about loving and accepting others.”
― How to Love
― How to Love
“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
“And you’ll smile at this man and wonder if he too, like all those who came before him, will someday be a bittersweet memory, will someday be felled by the same foolish blunder of knowing you a little too well and yet also somehow not enough.”
― Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
― Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
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