The Handmaid's Quotes - The Handmaid's Tale

Aunt Lydia: One can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Aunt Lydia: You are a popular girl. Several households have already made overtures. Commander and Mrs. Webber sent me these baked goods. Bit of bribery. Take one, dear. You've earned it.
June: I think I've earned a whole cake.
Aunt Lydia: Prideful girls don't get anything.
June: Bran. Great. Praise fucking be.

Serena: Patience and service and sacrifice. In the end, it's all worth it.

Fred: Nichole This is Offred.
Aunt Lydia: A beautiful name for a beautiful child. She looks just like her father.

Aunt Lydia: You're lucky they agreed. Four couples have refused. You're running out of chances. You must behave. Commander Lawrence is a very brilliant, very important man. He is considered the architect of Gilead's economy. Have you nothing to say for yourself?
Emily: I'm wondering why such an important, brilliant man would take in such a shitty handmaid.

Lawrence: Blessed be the fruit.
Emily: May the Lord open. Praise be to you, and may God make me worthy.
Lawrence: Super.

Lawrence: Don't touch my stuff!
Martha: It's in my way! 
Lawrence: You want a beating? 
Martha: Try it, old man.

Lawrence: You know the penalty for reading nowadays? Feel free to answer anytime.
Emily: A finger for a first offense.
Lawrence: You think that's fair?
Emily: It's the law.
Lawrence: It used to be a hand. Back in the good old days.

Eden: Does it hurt? To pump.
June: No, it just feels, uh, odd.
Eden: I can't wait to feel it. To breastfeed, I mean.
June: I hope you do someday.
Eden: May God find me worthy.
June: Right.
Eden: He'd want a child to be raised by parents who really love each other. Don't you think?
June: God?
Eden: What if you had that chance? For love and a baby?
June: Eden, you don't have to, to worry about me. I won't be around long. I think in this place you grab love wherever you can find it.

Nick: Have you seen Eden around?
Rita: I don't have enough to do? I have to keep tabs on your wife now?

June: I haven't seen [Eden] today.
Nick: She was gone when I woke up this morning.
June: Maybe she went to the mall. I heard there was a sale at Old Navy.

Fred: I gave [Eden] the opportunity to elevate herself - to be a wife, a mother, to be associated with the Waterford name.
Serena: Fred, we can't be sure that she ran off with him. Eden is a good, pious girl
Fred: A married woman swept up in her own selfish lust!

Nick: they already have Isaac for desertion. Say that he took you with him by force. Say he wouldn't let you come home. 
Eden: It's not true. 
Nick: The truth doesn't matter right now, Eden!
Eden: It matters to God. He knows what's inside my heart!
Nick: He doesn't decide what happens here today, okay? Just tell them what they need to hear.

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