Handmaids Tale Language As A Tool Of Power Quotes

#1. We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

Madeleine L'Engle

#2. If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.

John Calvin

#3. To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.

Thomas Merton

#4. With their virtues they want to scratch out the eyes of their enemies; and they elevate themselves only that they may lower others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Well, well. Kill the fatted calf and all that. The prodigals have returned.

Cassandra Clare

#6. Waiting in line is a great opportunity to meet people, daydream, or play.

Patch Adams

#7. After catching an arrow in the back and passing out in Tom the Feather's barnyard, Hadrian had woken up on a comfortable bed surrounded by lovely women. He thought he'd died and regretted every time he'd ever cursed Maribor's name.

Michael J. Sullivan

#8. A woman who'd lost her first son
consoled us with an angel gone ahead
to pray for our family
gone into that sky
seeking oxygen,
gone into autopsy

Michael S. Harper