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“But who can remember pain, when it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Meanwhile I must endure, keep myself safe for later. What has happened to me, what's happening to me now, won't make any difference to him, he loves me anyway, he knows it isn't my fault.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“But a chair, sunlight, flowers: these are not to be dismissed. I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight. Where I am is not a prison but a privilege.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“I don't have to tell anything, to myself or to anyone else. I could just sit here, peacefully. I could withdraw. It's possible to go so far in, so far down and back, they could never get you out.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale