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Set in the "not too distant future" in the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has taken over what was once the U.S.A. The story is told by Offred (Of Fred) who is a Handmaid in this society. Because of dangerously low reproduction rate
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My father was particularly fond of mockingjays. When we went hunting, he would whistle or sing complicated songs to them and, after a polite pause, they’d always sing back. Not everyone is treated with such respect. But whenever my father
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“Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.”
― Lords and Ladies
― Lords and Ladies
“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
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“Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street. ”
― Anansi Boys
― Anansi Boys
“The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.”
― Unseen Academicals
― Unseen Academicals
“Nothing ever begins.
There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs.
The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.”
― Weave World
There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs.
The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.”
― Weave World
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