The Handmaid's Tale

Faith is only a word, embroidered.

A movie about the past is not the same as the past.

I want anything that breaks the monotony, subverts the perceived respectable order of things.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don’t know won’t tempt you

You can’t help what you feel, Moira said once, but you can help how you behave.

To want is to have a weakness.

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

This is something you can depend upon: there will always be alliances, of one kind or another.

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.

It’s so good, to be touched by someone, to be felt so greedily, to feel so greedy.