handmaid's tale - quotes

Question 1

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Answer 1

the white wings too are prescribed issue; they are to keep us from seeing, but also from being seen

Question 2

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Answer 2

perhaps he was merely being friendly… perhaps he is an eye

Question 3

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Answer 3

under his eye

Question 4

teogroate

Answer 4

the eyes of god run over all the earth

Question 5

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Answer 5

where i am is not a prison but a privilege, as aunt lydia said

Question 6

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Answer 6

they can hit us, there’s scriptural precedent

Question 7

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Answer 7

there is more than one kind of freedom. freedom to and freedom from

Question 8

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im ravenous for news, any kind of news; even if it’s false news, it must mean something

Question 9

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Answer 9

they touch with their eyes instead, and i move my hips a little

Question 10

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Answer 10

give me children, or else i die

Question 11

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i cannot avoid seeing, now, the small tattoo on my ankle. four digits and an eye, a passport in reverse

Question 12

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Answer 12

i am a national resource

Question 13

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Answer 13

her fault, her fault, her fault, we chant in unison

Question 14

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each month i watch for blood, fearfully, for when it comes it means failure

Question 15

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i would like to steal something… it would make me feel that i have power… but such a feeling would be an illusion

Question 16

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Answer 16

the bible is kept locked up

Question 17

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below it the commander if fucking. what he is fucking is the lower part of my body

Question 18

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Answer 18

which of us is it worse for, her or me

Question 19

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Answer 19

to look at the egg gives me an intense pleasure

Question 20

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Answer 20

better never means better for everyone… it always means worse, for some

Question 21

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Answer 21

you are a transitional generation… for the ones who come after you, it will be easier. they will accept their duties with willing hearts

Question 22

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mother…you wanted a women’s culture. well, now there is one

Question 23

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Answer 23

this is a reconstruction

Question 24

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Answer 24

context is all

Question 25

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they shot the president and machine-gunned congress and the army declared a state of emergency. they blamed it on the islamic fanatics, at the time

Question 26

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there wasn't even any rioting in the streets... there wasn't an enemy you could put your finger on

Question 27

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we were careful to exchange nothing more than the ordinary greetings. nobody wanted to be reported, for disloyalty

Question 28

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Answer 28

he doesnt mind this, i thought... maybe he even likes it. we are not each other's anymore. instead, i am his

Question 29

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Answer 29

oh god oh god. how can i keep on living

Question 30

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we do have something in common, both of us are supposed to be invisible, both of us are functionaries

Question 31

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ive tried to make it sound as much like her as i can. its a way of keeping her alive

Question 32

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i tell him my real name, and feel that therefore i am known

Question 33

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Answer 33

ofglen is back beside me. her face is tight, expressionless

Question 34

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i want to keep on living, in any form. i resign my body freely, to the use of others

Question 35

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Answer 35

ordinary is what you are used to. this may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. it will become ordinary

Question 36

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but people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. no use, that is. no plot

Question 37

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i used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will... now the flesh arranges itself differently

Question 38

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a rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze

Question 39

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when we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. we want to believe it was all like that

Question 40

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but who can remember pain, once it's over? all that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh

Question 41

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live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got

Question 42

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is that how we lived, then? but we lived as usual. everyone does, most of the time. whatever is going on is as usual. even this is as usual, now

Question 43

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aunt lydia said it was best not to speak unless they asked you a direct question

Question 44

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Answer 44

you can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

Question 45

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in this way we exchanged names from bed to bed: alma, janine, dolores, moira, june

Question 46

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Answer 46

if it's a story i'm telling, then i have control over the ending

Question 47

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Answer 47

we are permitted anything and this is freedom, in my body also

Question 48

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and so i step up, into the darkness within, or else the light

Question 49

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Answer 49

as we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself on upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter

Question 50

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Answer 50

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