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“‘You are strong’, said Aunt Lydia, looking at Nicole. ‘Strength is a gift. Gifts should be employed.’ ‘You mean I should hit her?’ said Nicole. ‘That is a very direct way of putting it,’ said Aunt Lydia.”

“But it’s difficult to be grateful for the absence of an u known quantity. I’m afraid we did not fully appreciate the extent to which those of Aunt Lydia’s generation had been hardened in the fire. They had a ruthlessness about them that we lacked.”

“keep your friends close but your enemies closer. having no friends, i must make do with enemies.”

“we were to be actresses on the stages of our future houses.” margaret atwood COOKED with that line

“You must understand that I was not anybody in my own right - although of the privileged class, I was just a young woman about to be confined to wedlock. Wedlock: it had a dull metallic sound, like an iron door clicking shut.”

“one person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others”
“to breathe was to be nauseated”

LOVED season 1 of the show so it is indeed time to read the book