Handmaid's Tale Quotes

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Hint	Answer
The red centre	A palimpsest of unheard sound
Reaganism	A return to traditional values
Thought	Like other things now, thought must be rationed
Tulips	The tulips are red, a darker crimson towards the stem as if they have been cut
Freedom	Freedom to and freedom from
Zeros	The heads are zeros
Painted mouths	A small red one, like the mouths painted with thick brushed by kindergarten children
Control	If its a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending
Bulging eye	I go up the stairs, my face, distant and white and distorted, framed in the hall mirror, which bulges outward like an eye under pressure
Latin	Nolite te bastardes carborundorum
Resource	I am a national resource
The Bible	It is an incendiary device
Sex vs love	Nobody dies from a lack of sex. It's a lack of love we die from
Rules	For every rule there is always an exception: this too can be depened on
Maze	A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze
The cat	Because he said it instead of her, I know he meant kill

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Better?	Better never means better for everyone [...] it always means worse, for some
Destinies	They can fulfil their biological destinies in peace
Human	But everyone's human, after all
Fear	Fear is a powerful stimulant
She is?	I am, I am. I am, still
The end	Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and my eyes. This is what you get in the end
In homage to	Partly in homage to the great Geoffery Chaucer [...] I'm sure all puns were intentional
different turn of mind	Some of them could have been filled by our anonymous author, had she had a different turn of mind
wings	The white wings are prescribed issue; they are to keep us from seeing, but also from being seen
gasps	We have learned to see the world in gasps
spy	She is my spy, as I am hers
meek	Blessed are the meek, but she didn't go on to say anything about inheriting the earth
vessels	We are two legged wombs, that's all: sacred vessels, ambulatory chalices
serena joy	How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word
four	For them, one and one and one and one don't make four.
refugee	I'm a refugee of the past