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Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale

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  • Лариса и Юля Красноперовыhas quoted4 years ago
    But all of that was pertinent only in the night, and had nothing to do with the man you loved, at least in daylight. With that man you wanted it to work, to work out. Working out was also something you did to keep your body in shape, for the man. If you worked out enough, maybe the man would too. Maybe you would be able to work it out together, as if the two of you were a puzzle that could be solved; otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, would go wandering off on a trajectory of his own, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you with bad withdrawal, which you could counteract by exercise. If you didn't work it out it was because one of you had the wrong attitude.
  • Rutuja Todarwalhas quoted4 years ago
    I felt love going forward without me.
  • Rutuja Todarwalhas quoted4 years ago
    hope is rising in me, like sap in a tree
  • Rutuja Todarwalhas quoted4 years ago
    hope is rising in me, like sap in a tree. Blood in a wound.
  • Rutuja Todarwalhas quoted4 years ago
    I could scream. I could run away. I could turn from her silently, to show her I won’t tolerate this kind of talk in my presence. Subversion, sedition, blasphemy, heresy, all rolled into one.
  • Rutuja Todarwalhas quoted4 years ago
    Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.
  • Rutuja Todarwalhas quoted4 years ago
    The tension between her lack of control and her attempt to suppress it is horrible. It’s like a fart in church.
  • Rutuja Todarwalhas quoted4 years ago
    In this house we all envy each other something.
  • Rutuja Todarwalhas quoted4 years ago
    I need to be very clear, in my own mind.
  • Rutuja Todarwalhas quoted4 years ago
    evidence from a single woman is no longer admissible;
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