Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (1985)

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Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

Margaret Atwood

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

Margaret Atwood

It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.

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Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

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They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.

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The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand.

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Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

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You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

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We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Margaret Atwood