The Handmaid's Tale / The Testaments Quotes

“Whatever our shapes and features, we were snares and enticements despite ourselves, we were the innocent and blameless causes that through our very nature could make men drunk with lust, so that they'd stagger and lurch and topple over the verge - The verge of what? we wondered. Was it like a cliff? - and go plunging down in the flames, like snowballs made of burning sulphur hurled by the angry hand of God.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale / The Testaments

“The books I was given to learn from were about a boy and a girl called Dick and Jane. The books were very old, and the pictures had been altered at Ardua Hall. Jane wore long skirts and sleeves, but you could tell from the places where the paint had been applied that her skirt had once been above her knees and her sleeves had ended above her elbows. Her hair had once been uncovered.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale / The Testaments

“Kiedy historia, w którą wierzyłaś, okazuje się nieprawdziwa, zaczynasz wątpić we wszystkie inne.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale / The Testaments

“Tam, gdzie jest pustka, umysł szybko ją wypełnia. Lęk zawsze ochoczo zajmuje puste miejsca, podobnie jak ciekawość.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale / The Testaments

“...the names of the dead were on the stones, and that might lead to reading, and then to depravity. Reading was not for girls: only men were strong enough to deal with the force of it; and the Aunts, of course, because they weren't like us.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale / The Testaments

“Βρισκόμαστε στην καρδιά της Γαλαάδ, όπου ο πόλεμος δε φτάνει παρεκτός μέσα απ’ την τηλεόραση. Πού ακριβώς εκτείνονται τα σύνορα δεν είμαστε σίγουροι, διαφοροποιούνται μέρα με τη μέρα, ανάλογα με τις επιθέσεις και τις αντεπιθέσεις.. αλλά εδώ είναι το κέντρο, όπου τόποτα δε σαλεύει. Η Δημοκρατία της Γαλαάδ, έλεγε η θεία Λίντια, δε γνωρίζει σύνορα. Η Γαλαάδ ζει εντός σας.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale / The Testaments