The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

she’s like a cat that crawls onto the page when you’re trying to read.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

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.

Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.