Рассказ Служанки. The Handmaid's Tale

You can't stick your hand through a glass window without getting cut.

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

What's dangerous in the hands of the multitudes, he said, with what may or may not have been irony, is safe enough for those whose motives are…  Beyond reproach, I said. He nodded gravely.

It's amazing what denial can do.

There can be alliances even in such places, even under such circumstances. This is something you can depend upon: there will always be alliances, of one kind or another.

History will absolve me.

A thing is valued, she says, only if it is rare and hard to get.

The greater the risk the greater the glory.

In reduced circumstances the desire to live attaches itself to strange objects.

Sanity is a valuable possesion I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.