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I know that I wear a different, tougher skin now to the one I was born into, but scratch beneath the surface and below I am that same, frightened child.
“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“You know, Rose said, You're not the first man in history who thinks his cock is the path to wisdom. You're not the first man to make his hard-on into the Holy Grail.”
― In the City of Shy Hunters
― In the City of Shy Hunters
“Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.”
― Go Ask Alice
― Go Ask Alice
“No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
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