More quotes by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
"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?"
"Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck."
"Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."
"We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?"