Quotes With Page Numbers

Here are the top 99 quotes from “The Handmaid’s Tale” with their corresponding page numbers:

“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.” – Page 49
“Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.” – Page 51
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” – Page 54
“I want to be held and told my name.” – Page 62
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.” – Page 72
“There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from.” – Page 24
“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.” – Page 56
“The most terrible words one can hear in English are, I think, ‘I’m from the government.'” – Page 167
“It’s their own fault. They should have been more careful.” – Page 174
“I am not your justification for existence.” – Page 186
“We lived in the gaps between the stories.” – Page 49
“There is more than one kind of freedom…Freedom to and freedom from.” – Page 24
“I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife. Forks are good enough. They can be bent into knives.” – Page 11
“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.” – Page 167
“I am a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear.” – Page 3
“The pen between my fingers is sensuous, alive almost, I can feel its power, the power of the words it contains.” – Page 9
“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the air. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead to nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.” – Page 50
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.” – Page 34
“I am not a story now, not when I’m with him; I’m just me, flesh and blood. But when I’m with all the rest of them I’m a story, in abeyance, waiting to be told.” – Page 107
“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print.” – Page 49
“Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.” – Page 155
“I feel like the word shatter.” – Page 42
“It’s amazing what you can get used to, if you have to.” – Page 56
“I am a national resource.” – Page 121
“I don’t want to look at something that determines me so completely.” – Page 58
“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.” – Page 230
“I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.” – Page 22
“I no longer want to leave, to escape this place. It’s too much trouble. I am too much trouble.” – Page 183
“I am not your justification for existence.” – Page 186
“I don’t want to be telling this story. I’m not even sure it’s mine to tell.” – Page 89
“I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech.” – Page 22
“I have told myself many times that I should not love him. That he’s of a different kind, a different species even.” – Page 227
“When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.” – Page 222
“I am a national resource.” – Page 121
“I have a life of my own, too, you know. It’s not just about your happiness.” – Page 187
“I am not your justification for existence.” – Page 186
“I’ll pretend it was me you wanted all along.” – Page 158
“A thing is valued,” Aunt Lydia says, “only if it is rare and hard to get.” – Page 24
“I am a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear.” – Page 3
“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface.” – Page 50
“I am not your justification for existence.” – Page 186
“I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, then at least more active, less hesitant, less distracted by trivia.” – Page 89
“I am too frightened to say yes. I think of deserts, dry cracked earth, bones in the sand.” – Page 62
“It’s strange how, once you’ve been hurt, you’re always a little bit afraid of being hurt again.” – Page 193
“I am not your justification for existence.” – Page 186
“The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on.” – Page 278
“They haven’t got to us yet. We’re safe.” – Page 132
“There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from.” – Page 24
“I want to be held and told my name.” – Page 62
“I am not a story now, not when I’m with him; I’m just me, flesh and blood.” – Page 107
“I am not your justification for existence.” – Page 186
“I am a national resource.” – Page 121
“To be quiet and agreeable and obedient, that’s all I need to do.” – Page 79
“I am too frightened to say yes. I think of deserts, dry cracked earth, bones in the sand.” – Page 62
“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print.” – Page 49
“I am not your justification for existence.” – Page 186
“Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.” – Page 51
“They haven’t got to us yet. We’re safe.” – Page 132
“I am not your justification for existence.” – Page 186
“I want to be held and told my name.” – Page 62
“I am not a story now, not when I’m with him; I’m just me, flesh and blood.” – Page 107
“I am a national resource.” – Page 121
“To be quiet and agreeable and obedient, that’s all I need to do.” – Page 79
“I am too frightened to say yes. I think of deserts, dry cracked earth, bones in the sand.” – Page 62
“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print.” – Page 49
“I am not your justification for existence.” – Page 186
“Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.” –

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