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“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending...
But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone.
You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I feel like the word shatter.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Sanity is a valuable possession: I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale