Season

The Handmaid's Tale Season 1

by Margaret Atwood, The Commander, Joseph Fiennes, Offred, Elisabeth Moss and 123 others

Season One Offred must navigate between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids – where anyone could be a spy for Gilead – with one goal: to survive and find the daughter who was taken from her.

(41 total)

Characters

Margaret Atwood (34)Elisabeth Moss (21)Offred (June Osborne) (17)Bruce Miller (9)Lynn Renee Maxcy (8)Aunt Lydia (5)Leila Gerstein (5)Kira Snyder (5)Ann Dowd (5)Offred (4)

“Every love story is a tragedy if you wait long enough.”

— Lynn Renee Maxcy, Margaret Atwood, Commander Fred Waterford, Joseph Fiennes, imdb.com

Tagged: Love, Love Story, Tragedy

“You had to be brave to do this. So whatever it means, thank you.”

— Lynn Renee Maxcy, Offred, Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com

Tagged: Brave, Meaning, Thanks

“Everybody breaks. Everybody.”

— Lynn Renee Maxcy, Nick Blaine, Max Minghella, imdb.com

Tagged: Break, Everybody, Quit

“I should have just driven away with you.”

— Lynn Renee Maxcy, Nick Blaine, Max Minghella, imdb.com

Tagged: Drive, Escape, Wish

“A rose is a rose. Except here.”

— Lynn Renee Maxcy, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com

Tagged: Rose, Meaning, Change, Flower

“Can I tell you a secret? I can do anything I want.”

— Lynn Renee Maxcy, Janine Lindo, Madeline Brewer, imdb.com

Tagged: Secret, anything, Empower

“Please God don't let me be a fucking moron.”

— Lynn Renee Maxcy, Offred, Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com

Tagged: Moron, Pray, God

“In this house, little things mean everything.”

— Lynn Renee Maxcy, Margaret Atwood, Offred, Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com

Tagged: House, little things, Everything

“There’s still going to be a lot of pain.”

— Margaret Atwood, Commander Fred Waterford, Joseph Fiennes, imdb.com

Tagged: Pain

“It’s hard making it in a society that only cares about profit and pleasure. No wonder God has turned His back on us. No wonder there are no children. He doesn’t want them to grow up in this screwed-up world. Who can blame Him?”

— Margaret Atwood, Andrew Pryce, Robert Curtis Brown, imdb.com

Tagged: Profit, Pleasure, Society, God, Children

“There’s always someone, even when there is no one.”

— Margaret Atwood, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com

Tagged: Loneliness

“Now I’m awake to the world. I was asleep before.”

— Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com

Tagged: Awakening, Sleep

“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...”

— Bruce Miller, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com

Tagged: Pain, prayer, pleading, Doll, promises

“I'm here because it feels good and because I don't want to be alone.”

— Margaret Atwood, Kira Snyder, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com

Tagged: Loneliness

“Is this it? Is this enough for you, this bullshit life? Is this what you want?”

— Margaret Atwood, Kira Snyder, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com

Tagged: Bullshit, Ennui

“We must treat these girls respectfully, in a godly fashion, despite the moral stain from their lives before.”

— Margaret Atwood, Kira Snyder, Andrew Pryce, Robert Curtis Brown, imdb.com

Tagged: Respect, Girls, Sin, Moral

“It's hard making it in a society that only cares about profit and pleasure. No wonder God has turned His back on us. No wonder there are no children. He doesn't want them to grow up in this screwed-up world.”

— Margaret Atwood, Kira Snyder, Andrew Pryce, Robert Curtis Brown, imdb.com

Tagged: God, Profit, Pleasure, punishment, Children

“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!”

— Margaret Atwood, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com

Tagged: Rape, scripture, Happy, Happiness

“I stretch out my arms to him, but he slips away. Like a ghost at daybreak. And I am left here.”

— Margaret Atwood, Kira Snyder, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com

Tagged: Ghost, Daybreak

“Even the righteous need a little show business.”

— Margaret Atwood, Wendy Straker, Serena Joy Waterford, Yvonne Strahovski, imdb.com

Tagged: Show Business, Righteous