A Level English - Handmaids Tale Key Quotes

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  • Thinking can hurt your chances and I intend to live
    Page 17
  • They've removed anything you could tie a rope to
    Page 17
  • It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself given a cutting edge
    Page 18
  • A non descript woman in red
    Page 28
  • A Handmaid in more than name
    Page 29
  • Gilead is within you

    Page 33
  • She's a magic prescence to u, an object of envy and desire, we covet her

    Page 36
  • She's like my own reflection, in a mirror from which I am moving away
    Page 54
  • All flesh is weak, all flesh is grass
    Page 54
  • Nolite te bastardes carborundum
    Page 62
  • FAITH. It's the only thing they've given us to read

    Page 67
  • I ought to feel hatred for this man.... I don't know what to call it. It isn't love
    Page 68
  • No twin went with me, on this occasion I'm solitaire
    Page 69
  • It's the choice that terrifies me. A way out, a salvation
    Page 71
  • The small tattoo on my ankle. Four fidgets and an I. A passport in reverse
    Page 75
  • At testifying it's safer to make something up than say you have nothing to reveal
    Page 81
  • I don't sit, but take my place
    Page 89
  • I tell myself it doesn't matter, but what I tell myself is wrong. It does matter.
    Page 94
  • For our purposes your feet and hands are not essential
    Page 102
  • Sanity is a valuable possession;I hoard it the way people once hoarded money
    Page 119
  • This is a reconstruction, all of this is a reconstruction
    Page 144
  • She depends on me. She hopes and I am the vehicle for her hope
    Page 145
  • We are two legged wombs, that's all

    Page 146
  • The letter C. Crisp, slightly acid on the tongue, delicious.
    Page 149
  • Context is all
    154
  • Whatever is silenced will clamour to be heard
    Page 161
  • My tongue felt thick with the effort of spelling
    Page 164
  • Jesus Christ you ought to know. My voice was angrier than I'd intended
    Page 168
  • I would pretend not to be present. Not in the flesh
    Page 169
  • To Him I'm not longer merely a useable body... to him I am not merely empty
    Page 172
  • We have made an opening
    Page 178
  • What I feel is relief. It wasn't me

    Page 179
  • Ours is not to reason why. Said Moira

    Page 188
  • It wasn't the army, it was some other army
    Page 189
  • If your dog dies, get another
    Page 197
  • If my life is bearable, maybe what they are doing is all right after all
    Page 197
  • What the commander said is true. One and one and one and one doesn't equal four.
    Page 201
  • It must amuse him, this fake subservience
    Page 221
  • Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some
    Page 222
  • What were aiming for, said Aunt Lydia, is a spirit of camaraderie among women
    Page 234