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“Will Serena Joy talk about me like that, if I do as she wants? Agreed to it right away, really she didn’t care, anything with two legs and a good you-know-what was fine with her. They aren’t squeamish, they don’t have the same feelings we do. And the rest of them leaning forward in their chairs, My dear, all horror and prurience. How could she? Where? When?”
― Margaret Atwood

“You'd have to watch your weight, that's for sure,' he says. 'They're strict about that. Gain ten pounds and they put you in Solitary.' Is he joking? Most likely, but I don't want to know.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, than at least more active, less hesitant, less distracted by trivia. I wish it had more shape. I wish t were about love, or about sudden realizations important to one’s life, or even about sunsets, birds, rainstorms, or snow. I’m sorry there is so much pain in this story. I’m sorry it’s in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there is nothing I can do to change it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, then at least more active, less hesitant, less distracted by trivia. I wish it had more shape. I wish it were about love, or about sudden realizations important to one's life, or even about sunsets, birds, rainstorms, or snow.
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I'm sorry there is so much pain in this story. I'm sorry it's in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there is nothing I can do to change it.
I've tried to put some of the good things in as well. Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I want you to kiss me, said the Commander.
Well, of course, something came before that. Such requests never come flying out of the blue.”
― Margaret Atwood

“So there it was, out in the open: his wife didn't understand him.
That's what I was there for then. The same old thing. It was too banal to be true.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“September first will be labour day, they still have that. Though it didn't used to have anything to do with mothers.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“So the J isn't for Jew. What could it be? Jehovah's Witness? Jesuit?Whatever it meant, he's just as dead.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“This lady had more disclaimers than an antidepressant commercial.”
― Jeff Strand, Sick House

“-"What's the big flaw in your plan?"
-"Victims who won't shut the fuck up.”
― Jeff Strand, Sick House