Book: The Handmaid's Tale

It would be good to live without shame. It would be nice to live shameless. It would be nice to live in the dark. I wouldn't understand how I'm dark.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
Don't let the bastards grind you to finish.

Nothing is impossible to tell exactly how it was, because what they say is not exactly something every time you miss, too many roles, parties, countercurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes, which completely described, too many flavors in the air or in the language of tones too much.

Clear thinking can only be dressed.

The best never means "best for all". Someone always worse.

Nice to have small goals that easy to achieve.

We thought we had such serious problems. How were we to know that we are happy?

Freedom is different: the freedom to... and freedom from...

But people will do anything if only not to recognize that their lives are meaningless. That is useless. Plotless.