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An English silence – one in which all the unspoken words are perfectly understood by both parties – prevailed.
“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.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“And those that there are tend to be so deep in the closet you could mistake them for a clothes hanger.”
― The Mermaids Singing
― The Mermaids Singing
“He wanted me to play Scrabble with him, and kiss him as if I meant it. This is one of the most bizzarre things that’s happened to me, ever. Context is all.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“I don’t like the news on the radio. It’s always read by girls of some sort who pronounce the place names incomprehensibly. What’s more, one in three of them has a slight speech defect, as though such ones are selected deliberately.”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita
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