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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
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