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The Handmaid's Tale Quotes

“Every love story is a tragedy if you wait long enough.”
— Commander Fred Waterford, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Faithful
Tagged: Love, Love Story, Tragedy
“Everybody breaks. Everybody.”
— Nick Blaine, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Late
Tagged: Break, Everybody, Quit
“I should have just driven away with you.”
— Nick Blaine, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Late
Tagged: Drive, Escape, Wish
“A rose is a rose. Except here. ”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Late
Tagged: Rose, Meaning, Change, Flower
“Can I tell you a secret? I can do anything I want.”
— Janine Lindo, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Late
Tagged: Secret, anything, Empower
“Please God don't let me be a fucking moron.”
— Offred, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Birth Day
Tagged: Moron, Pray, God
“I was well enough to suck your cock! I did every fucked-up thing you wanted! All the freaky shit she'd never do because you promised me we would run off and we would be a family!”
— Janine, The Handmaid's Tale, Season 1: The Bridge
Tagged: Cock, fellatio, blowjobs, promises, Family
“You're scared. But maybe we're stronger than we think we are. ”
— Offred, The Handmaid's Tale, Season 3: Watch Out
Tagged: strength, Women, empowerment, Encouraging
“There’s still going to be a lot of pain.”
— Commander Fred Waterford, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: A Woman's Place
Tagged: Pain
“You don’t have to be quiet here. You can be free.”
— Margaret Atwood, Eric Tuchman, The Handmaid's Tale, Season 1: The Bridge
Tagged: Quiet, Free
“Do not let them grind you down. You keep your fucking shit together. You fight!”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, Season 1: The Bridge
Tagged: Fight, perseverance
“There’s always someone, even when there is no one.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Jezebels
Tagged: Loneliness
“Now I’m awake to the world. I was asleep before.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Late
Tagged: Awakening, Sleep
“The girls in here do two things. They get fucked or they get fucked up.”
— Econowife, The Handmaid's Tale, Season 1: The Bridge
Tagged: Fucked, Intoxicated, fucked up
“Is this it? Is this enough for you, this bullshit life? Is this what you want?”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Jezebels
Tagged: Bullshit, Ennui
“We must treat these girls respectfully, in a godly fashion, despite the moral stain from their lives before.”
— Andrew Pryce, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Jezebels
Tagged: Respect, Girls, Sin, Moral
“It's hard making it in a society that only cares about profit and pleasure. No wonder God has turned His back on us. No wonder there are no children. He doesn't want them to grow up in this screwed-up world.”
— Andrew Pryce, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Jezebels
Tagged: God, Profit, Pleasure, punishment, Children
“Fuck you! They don't rape you, do they? He doesn't come in here once a month and read you a little scripture and stick his cock up your ass? I said I was happy!”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: A Woman's Place
Tagged: Rape, scripture, Happy, Happiness
“My Commander—small dick, big mouth.”
— Alma, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: A Woman's Place
Tagged: Micropenis, Big Mouth
“The most painful thing is not the betrayal of trust, June. Do you know what's most painful? The most painful thing in this entire ugly incident is the ingratitude.”
— Aunt Lydia, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum
Tagged: Trust, Betrayal, Pain, ugly, Ingratitude
“Soon you will be leaving us for new homes, a new family. And they won't judge you for your looks, or your clothes, or your ability to sound clever.”
— Aunt Lydia, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum
Tagged: looks, Change, clever, Family
“Please, God, I don't want pain. I don't want to be a doll, hung on the wall. I want to keep on living. I'll do anything. Resign my body freely to the uses of others. I'll sacrifice. I'll repent. I'll abdicate. I'll renounce.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Late
Tagged: Pain, Repentance, Survival, Life
“A rose is a rose, except here. Here it has to mean something. It's beautiful.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Late
Tagged: Roses, beauty, Meaning
“They made such a mess of everything. They filled the air with chemicals and radiation and poison! So, God whipped up a special plague. The plague of infertility….As birthrates fell, they made things worse. Birth control pills, morning-after pills, murdering babies. Just so they could have their orgies, their Tinder.”
— Aunt Lydia, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Offred
Tagged: Tinder, Infertility, Chemicals, poison, Radiation, God, Orgies, birth control, Abortion
“I know this must feel so strange, but ordinary is just what you're used to. This may not be ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. This will become ordinary.”
— Aunt Lydia, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Offred
Tagged: familiar, Ordinary, strange
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum, bitches.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum
“You can't change anything about this. It's going to end the same no matter you do what so there's no point trying to be tough or brave. Brave isn't any part of this. Everybody breaks.”
— Nick Blaine, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Late
Tagged: Bravery
“Should I just go in the kitchen and cut my dick off?”
— Luke Bankole, The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Late
Tagged: humor, Castration
“I want to tell her that Ofglen is not my friend, that I've exchanged barely fifty words with her in the two months since I got here. I kind of want to tell her that I sincerely believe that Ofglen is a pious little shit with a broomstick up her ass.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Offred
Tagged: Pious, Hostility
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