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Offred (June Osborne) Quotes

Total quotes: 25
“A rose is a rose. Except here. ”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Late
Tagged: Rose, Meaning, Change, Flower
“Do not let them grind you down. You keep your fucking shit together. You fight!”
— Offred (June Osborne), Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Season 1: The Bridge
Tagged: Fight, perseverance
“There’s always someone, even when there is no one.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Jezebels
Tagged: Loneliness
“Now I’m awake to the world. I was asleep before.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Late
Tagged: Awakening, Sleep
“ To want is to have a weakness.”
— Offred (June Osborne),
Tagged: Desire, Weakness
“Is this it? Is this enough for you, this bullshit life? Is this what you want?”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Jezebels
Tagged: Bullshit, Ennui
“I'm here because it feels good and because I don't want to be alone.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Jezebels
Tagged: Loneliness
“I stretch out my arms to him, but he slips away. Like a ghost at daybreak. And I am left here.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Jezebels
Tagged: Ghost, Daybreak
“I think God has bigger things on his plate these days.”
— Offred (June Osborne),
Tagged: God, Urgency
“Fuck you! They don't rape you, do they? He doesn't come in here once a month and read you a little scripture and stick his cock up your ass? I said I was happy!”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: A Woman's Place
Tagged: Rape, scripture, Happy, Happiness
“I've learned that he likes it when I flirt. And I like it when he lets me win. We're a match made in heaven.”
— Offred (June Osborne),
Tagged: Flirting, Winning, romance, Heaven
“The doctor's office is on the other side of town. That's a whole hour each way, if I walk slow. An hour of outside and rain and flowers and fresh fucking air.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum
Tagged: Walking, Rain, Exercise, Fresh Air, Doctor's Office
“Please, God, I don't want pain. I don't want to be a doll, hung on the wall. I want to keep on living. I'll do anything. Resign my body freely to the uses of others. I'll sacrifice. I'll repent. I'll abdicate. I'll renounce.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Late
Tagged: Pain, Repentance, Survival, Life
“A rose is a rose, except here. Here it has to mean something. It's beautiful.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Late
Tagged: Roses, beauty, Meaning
“But I can't stop thinking about the girl in the horror movie who goes down into the basement when the light is out. The girl who thinks her boyfriend with the perfect hair is just playing a sexy prank.”
— Offred (June Osborne),
Tagged: Horror Movies, Boyfriend, Sexy, Pranks, basement
“One-eyed, bat-shit-crazy Janine. What will she give birth to? An Unbaby, with a pinhead or a snout like a dog's or no heart? The chances for a healthy birth are one in five, if you can get pregnant at all.”
— Offred (June Osborne),
Tagged: Pregnancy, Birth Defects
“A perfect gift. A girl trapped in a box. She only dances when someone opens the lid, when someone else winds her up. If this is a story I'm telling, I must be telling it to someone. There's always someone, even when there's no one. I will not be that girl in the box.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Jezebels
Tagged: Gift, Box, trapped
“Whether this is my end or a new beginning, I have no way of knowing. I have given myself over into the hands of strangers. I have no choice. It can't be helped. And so I step up into the darkness within or else the light.”
— Offred (June Osborne),
Tagged: Darkness, Beginning, Light, Strangers
“You don't just feel pregnant 30 seconds after a man cums.”
— Offred (June Osborne),
Tagged: Pregnancy, orgasm
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum, bitches.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum
“Sterile. That's a forbidden word. There is no such thing as a sterile man anymore. There's only women who are fruitful and women who are barren.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum
Tagged: Sterility, Barren, Forbidden
“Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the Constitution, we didn't wake up then either. They said it would be temporary. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Late
Tagged: Congress, Dystopia, Terrorists, Constitution
“Now there has to be an us because now there is a them.”
— Offred (June Osborne),
Tagged: Us v. Them
“I don't need oranges. I need to scream. I need to grab the nearest machine gun.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Offred
Tagged: Oranges, Scream, Machine Gun
“I want to tell her that Ofglen is not my friend, that I've exchanged barely fifty words with her in the two months since I got here. I kind of want to tell her that I sincerely believe that Ofglen is a pious little shit with a broomstick up her ass.”
— Offred (June Osborne), The Handmaid's Tale, The Handmaid's Tale Season 1: Offred
Tagged: Pious, Hostility
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