Offred's Rebellion Quotes & Sayings

Is "defeatedly" a real word? As in, "She sighed defeatedly as spell-check implied that 'defeatedly' isn't a real word." Fuck it. It's going in the book, and I'm a pretty sure that makes it a real word. Me and Shakespeare. Making shit up as we go along. — Jenny Lawson

Sadie wondered if his focus on the past helped him escape the here and now. — Valerie Ormond

Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective. — Margaret Heffernan

You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well underway in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you. It is like a bad dream. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that are important to them ... not you. — David Cottrell

Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and since even a long time would not suffice to explain that trifle, or even to hint at an explanation, I pass over this in silence. — Galileo Galilei

Well, I know that George Lucas doesn't like it at all. When I was working on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, he told me that he would be happy if every copy could be tracked down and smashed ... — Kevin J. Anderson

I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy. — Matthew Nable

The truth is that leadership opportunities are plentiful and within reach of most people.3 — John C. Maxwell

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession. — Charles Caleb Colton

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everyone was good at something. Some people painted. Others played music. Corrado just happened to be good at murder. He accepted that. Embraced it. That was who he was. The Kevlar Killer. — J.M. Darhower