#handmaid's

The American flag in the show 'The Handmaid's Tale'. The two stars representing the only two states under American control, Hawaii and Alaska.

The Handmaid’s Tale 1.06 - “A Woman’s Place”

Here I am in the closet. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. I can’t see it in the dark but I trace the tiny scratched writing with the ends of my fingers, as if it’s a code in Braille. It sounds in my head now less like a prayer, more like a command; but to do what? Useless to me in any case, an ancient hieroglyph to which the key’s been lost. Why did she write it, why did she bother? There’s no way out of here. 

I lie on the floor, breathing too fast, then slower, evening out my breathing, as in the Exercises, for giving birth. All I can hear now is the sound of my own heart, opening and closing, opening and closing, opening.

The Handmaid’s Tale

Handmaid's Tale last scene