HT KEY QUOTES

Question 1

“We slept in what had once been the gymnasium”

Question 2

“They’ve removed anything you could tie a rope to”

Question 3

“Thinking can hurt your chances, and I intend to last”

Question 4

“There’s scriptural procedure”

Question 5

“Freedom to and freedom from”

Question 6

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”

Question 7

“Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.”

Question 8

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

Question 9

“When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”

Question 10

“the high-heeled shoes with their straps attached to the feet like delicate instruments of torture”

Question 11

“I remember the smell of nail polish…the way it wrinkled if you put a second coat on too soon.”

Question 12

“She is my spy, as I am hers”

Question 13

“What I present is a made thing. No something born.”

Question 14

“I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it.”

Question 15

“Her fault, her fault, her fault.”

Question 16

“I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am”

Question 17

“Arousal and orgasm are no longer thought necessary”

Question 18

“the long parenthesis of nothing. Time as white sound”

Question 19

“she’s there with me suddenly, without warning”

Question 20

“We are two-legged wombs”

Question 21

“This is a re-construction. All of it is a reconstruction.”

Question 22

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

Question 23

“All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn’t be that hard.”

Question 24

“fake it, I scream at myself inside my head. You must remember how”

Question 25

“Nature demands variety for men. It’s part of the procreational strategy”

Question 26

“he was not a monster to her”

Question 27

“more than a shadow. And I for him. I am no longer merely a usable body.”

Question 28

“There was nothing for them anymore…I’m not talking about sex, he says. That was part of it, the sex was too easy…you know what they were complaining about the most? Inability to feel.”

Question 29

“I am above him, looking down”

Question 30

“Scrabble?”

Question 31

“Mayday”

Question 32

“Love, fi

Question 33

“You should wish it for her.” (Moira about Offred’s Mother in the colonies)

Question 33

“We only work nights” (Moira)

Question 34

"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum” (Don’t let the bastards grind you down)

Question 35

“I could get you a picture. Maybe.” (Serena Joy)

Question 36

“You might have left me something.” (Serena Joy)

Question 37

“So I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light”

Question 38

“[Moira] She was our fantasy.”