More quotes by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

"Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered."
"One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?"
"Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations."
"We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?"
"Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck."