Handmaid’s Tale Quotes

Automatically tweeting quotes from @margaretatwood’s speculative fiction The Handmaid’s Tale every 3 hours. Scarily relevant in a modern world. #HandmaidsTale

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. I hunger to touch something, other than cloth or wood. I hunger to commit the act of touch.

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It's a beautiful May day, Ofglen says. I feel rather than see her head turn towards me, waiting for a reply.

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The Underground Frailroad

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They've removed anything you could tie a rope to.

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s. Guns were for the guards, specially picked from the Angels.

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If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending.

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The night is mine, my own time, to do with as I will, as long as I am quiet.

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I feel like the word shatter.

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I am not your justification for existence.

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If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending.

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Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.

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It's a beautiful May day, Ofglen says. I feel rather than see her head turn towards me, waiting for a reply.

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They had electric cattle prods slung on thongs from their leather belts.

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We learned to whisper almost without sound.

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Some of the failure to reproduce can undoubtedly be traced to the widespread availability of birth control of various kinds

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I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it.

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My room, then. There has to be some space, finally, that I claim as mine, even in this time.

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The night is mine, my own time, to do with as I will, as long as I am quiet.

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That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets.

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Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.