The Handmaids tale quotes by chapter Flashcards
S1(Night) C1 (Red Center)
“We yearned for the future. How did we learn it—that talent for insatiability?”
“Cattle prongs slung from thongs,”
S2(Shopping) C2 (First day)
“I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed.”
S2 (Shopping) C3 (Serena Joy)
“Scriptural precedent”
S2 (Shopping) C4 (Walking + Checkpoint)
“Blessed be the fruit. May the Lord Open. Praise be.”
“I enjoy the power; power of a dog bone, passive but there”
S2 (Shopping) C5 (Red Center(protection) + Shops)
“Women were not protected then.”
“There’s more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it”
“Offred” “Ofglen” “Ofwarren”
S2 (Shopping) C6 (Hanging Wall)
“We’re supposed to look: this is what they are there for, hanging on the Wall”
“Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.”
S3 (Night) C7 (Moira, Magazines, Forgetful)
“I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance.”
S4 (Waiting Room) C8 (Shopping 2)
“Under His Eye”
S4 (Waiting Room) C11 (doctor)
“Give me children or else I die. There’s more than one meaning to it.”
“It’s the choice that terrifies me. A way out, a salvation.”
S4 (Waiting Room) C9 (Cupboard)
“We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?”
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum”
S4 (Waiting Room) C10 (Humming, Summer, thinking)
“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance. You have to work at it”
S4 (Waiting Room) C12 (Bath, Daughter)
“I put my face against the soft hair at the back of her neck and breathe her in.”
S4 (Waiting Room) C11 (Doctor)
“Give me children, or else I die. There’s more than one meaning to it.”
“It’s the choice that terrifies me. A way out, a salvation.”
S5 (Nap) C13 (Moira, Red Center, Running)
“who’s fault is it? Her fault, her fault, her fault. Teach her a lesson, teach her a lesson, teach her a lesson. “
S6 (Household) C17 (post-ceremony)
“We are containers; it’s only the insides of our bodies that are important. The outside can become hard and wrinkled, for all they care, like the shell of a nut.”
