"We must continue to remind ourselves of the wrong turnings taken in the past so we do not repeat them."

I love exploring this world. I loved the characters we followed, and it was interesting to see this side of Gilead. However, this installment lacked the beautiful, lyrical language of the first, which was what I loved about it.

 - "How could Job have allowed God to fob off a batch of new children on him and expect him to pretend the dead ones no longer mattered?" I KNOW RIGHT??
- "Only an idiot would have believed this, so I did." That's funny.
- "Blood was polluting, especially when it came out of girls, but God once liked having it spilled on his altars." Yeah people.
- "Giving up was the new normal, and I have to say it was catching." Sadly, yes.
- "All that was necessary was a law degree and a uterus: a lethal combination." Hell yeah it is.
- "The powerless is so tempting." Ugh/
- "Yes, the thought-experiment penises can get out of control." What a sentence.
- "I am the great proponent of better. In the absence of best. Which is how we live now."
- "The doctors, the dentists, the lawyers, the accountants: in the new world of Gilead, as in the old, their sins are frequently forgiven them." Sadly, yes.
- It's creepy how the Pearl Girls are so kind to Nicole at first, only to completely ignore her later.
- "This place is weird as fuck." Yes indeed.
- The feeling of losing faith that Agnes describes is exactly what I felt. It's a grief, for the belief, the diety you believed in, and the person you were when you believed that.
- Paula was so cruel to that Handmaid. That's awful.
-Screw Aunt Lydia for just leaving Becka behind to die. And it's so sweet that they call her a sisteron her gravestone.
- I'm so glad that, as Aunt Lydia says, "You yourself will never have to [behave so cruelly]." I'm so grateful to not have to be the kind of person Aunt Lydia was forced to be.