Offred

• I tell, therefore you are
• I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it.... then I have control over the ending
• Like the candy I hoarded as a child
• Such moments are possibilities, tiny peepholes
• We have ceremonies of our own, private ones
• As long as we do this, butter our skin to keep it soft, we can believe that we will some day get out, that we will be touched again, in love or desire
• I tell him [Nick] my real name
• One detaches oneself, one describes VS It's so good to be touched by someone, to be felt so greedily, to feel so greedy
• The white wings too are prescribed issue; they are to keep us from seeing but also from being seen. I never looked good in red, it's not my colour
• We are two-legged wombs, that's all: sacred vessels
• We are for breeding purposes
• I am a national resource
• Books and books and books.... it's an oasis of the forbidden
• I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing.... My own territory (about her body)
• I'm a cloud... every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen