“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
“You can't help what you feel but you can help how you behave.”
“I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.”
“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 up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, crisscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.”
“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”
“Freedom, like everything else, is relative.”
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― The Handmaid's Tale, directed by Reed Morano. Writers: Margaret Atwood (novel).