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"Really a funny book !!!!!. I would undoubtly rate this book 4 out of 5 star so far." — Sep 29, 2017 08:32PM
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"Liane Moriaty is really good at manipulating reader's emotions. I have to admit I cried when I read this book. It is a magnificent book showing us any relationships in which inevitably mix with big little secrets and lies. Uncover this veil, you' ll see domestic violence, rape, rough relationship with your ex husband and crazy teenager daughter." — Sep 28, 2017 06:39AM
"Liane Moriaty is really good at manipulating reader's emotions. I have to admit I cried when I read this book. It is a magnificent book showing us any relationships in which inevitably mix with big little secrets and lies. Uncover this veil, you' ll see domestic violence, rape, rough relationship with your ex husband and crazy teenager daughter." — Sep 28, 2017 06:39AM
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“Sometimes she would cry. I was so lonely, she'd say. You have no idea how lonely I was. And I had friends, I was a lucky one, but I was lonely anyway.
I admired my mother in some ways, although things between us were never easy. She expected too much from me, I felt. She expected me to vindicate her life for her, and the choices she'd made. I didn't want to live my life on her terms. I didn't want to be the model offspring, the incarnation of her ideas. We used to fight about that. I am not your justification for existence, I said her to once.
I want her back. I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
I admired my mother in some ways, although things between us were never easy. She expected too much from me, I felt. She expected me to vindicate her life for her, and the choices she'd made. I didn't want to live my life on her terms. I didn't want to be the model offspring, the incarnation of her ideas. We used to fight about that. I am not your justification for existence, I said her to once.
I want her back. I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“I feel like the word shatter.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. God is love, they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh.
And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends had been evasive about it, at the time.
There is a good deal of comfort, now, in remembering this.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends had been evasive about it, at the time.
There is a good deal of comfort, now, in remembering this.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
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