The best Quotes from The Handmaid's Tale

Live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

Every love story is a tragedy if you wait long enough.

You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave.

Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

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

Everybody's talking about happily ever after, but there's just after.

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

But remember that forgiveness too is a power.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Never mistake a woman's meekness for weakness.

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil.

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

Ordinary is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface.

Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print... it gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

There is more than one kind of freedom. 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.