“But by that time, Janine was like a puppy that's been kicked too often, by too many people, at random: she'd roll over for anyone, she'll tell anything, just for a moment of approbation.”
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“We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“Whatever is silenced will clamour to be heard, though silently.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloudcover... Maybe night falls because it's heavy, a thick curtain pulled over the eyes... I wish I could see in the dark, better than I do.”
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