Margaret Atwood 'The Handmaids Tale' Quotes

Nolite te ________ __________

bastardes carborundorum

Better never means _______ ____ _________... It always means ______, ___ ______.

better for everyone, worse for some

Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of _____, out of ____.

sight, mind

We were the people who were not in the ______. We lived in the _____ _____ _____ at the edges of print.

papers, blank white spaces

A rat in a maze is ____ to go anywhere, as long as it stays _____ ___ ____.

free, inside the maze

Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of _______, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from

anarchy

“I am not your justification for _________.”

existence

“I want to be valued…….. I want to be more than _______.”

valuable

“I want to _____ something.”

steal

You don't tell a story only to _______. There's always someone else. Even when there is __ ___.

yourself, no one

Knowing was a _________. What you don't know won't _____ you.

temptation, tempt

That was when they suspended the __________. They said it would be _________.

Constitution, temporary

It isn't _______ ____ they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a _______ _____.

running away, cutting edge

I avoid looking down at my ____…..I don’t want to look at something that __________ me so completely

body, determines

Modesty is ________

Invisibility

To be seen—to be seen—is to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is _________.

impenetrable

I wish this story were different. I wish it were more ________.

civilized

Pearls are ________ oyster spit

congealed

Blessed are the ______

silent

From each according to his ______, to each according to his _____

ability, need

Dances would have been held there; the music lingered, a __________ of unheard sound

palimpsest

Whatever is _______ will clamor to be heard, though silently.

silenced