A Level English - Handmaids Tale Key Quotes
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- Thinking can hurt your chances and I intend to live
- They've removed anything you could tie a rope to
- It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself given a cutting edge
- A non descript woman in red
- A Handmaid in more than name
- Gilead is within you
- She's a magic prescence to u, an object of envy and desire, we covet her
- She's like my own reflection, in a mirror from which I am moving away
- All flesh is weak, all flesh is grass
- Nolite te bastardes carborundum
- FAITH. It's the only thing they've given us to read
- I ought to feel hatred for this man.... I don't know what to call it. It isn't love
- No twin went with me, on this occasion I'm solitaire
- It's the choice that terrifies me. A way out, a salvation
- The small tattoo on my ankle. Four fidgets and an I. A passport in reverse
- At testifying it's safer to make something up than say you have nothing to reveal
- I don't sit, but take my place
- I tell myself it doesn't matter, but what I tell myself is wrong. It does matter.
- For our purposes your feet and hands are not essential
- Sanity is a valuable possession;I hoard it the way people once hoarded money
- This is a reconstruction, all of this is a reconstruction
- She depends on me. She hopes and I am the vehicle for her hope
- We are two legged wombs, that's all
- The letter C. Crisp, slightly acid on the tongue, delicious.
- Context is all
- Whatever is silenced will clamour to be heard
- My tongue felt thick with the effort of spelling
- Jesus Christ you ought to know. My voice was angrier than I'd intended
- I would pretend not to be present. Not in the flesh
- To Him I'm not longer merely a useable body... to him I am not merely empty
- We have made an opening
- What I feel is relief. It wasn't me
- Ours is not to reason why. Said Moira
- It wasn't the army, it was some other army
- If your dog dies, get another
- If my life is bearable, maybe what they are doing is all right after all
- What the commander said is true. One and one and one and one doesn't equal four.
- It must amuse him, this fake subservience
- Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some
- What were aiming for, said Aunt Lydia, is a spirit of camaraderie among women