- The Commander: We only wanted to make the world better.
- Offred: Better?
- The Commander: Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse for some.
- [last lines]
- Offred: [on Ofglen] They didn't get everything. There was something inside of her that they couldn't take away. She looked invincible.
- The Commander: Love isn't real, it was never anything more than lust, with a good marketing campaign!
- Offred: [Voiceover] What have I learned after 34 games? 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. It reminds me of a poem I read once: "You fit into me like a hook into an eye. A fishhook. An open eye."
- Offred: [final lines] Mayday. Luke told me once where the term comes from. It's French: m'aidez. Help me.
- The Commander: Not even close - you ran away with that one.
- Offred: I got lucky.
- The Commander: Maybe you're just learning my weaknesses.
- Offred: Maybe.
- The Commander: I'll have to be more careful.
- Offred: What's the fun in that?
- Offred: Those were all destroyed.
- The Commander: Some of us retain an appreciation for the old things.
- Offred: [Voiceover] I used to buy magazines like this at the airport. I read them when I got my hair highlighted. Now the models all look insane. Like zoo animals unaware they're about to go extinct.
- Lillie Fuller: You're cute. You used to do yoga class. Spinning or something, before? And your man liked to cook.
- Offred: I don't know what you're talking about.
- Lillie Fuller: You guys had a first-floor walkup, down Back Bay, with a garden; hedges off a Nordstrom's card, right?
- Offred: I liked Anthropologie.
- Lillie Fuller: Yeah? I used to get fucked behind the dumpster just so I could buy a six of Oxy and a Happy Meal. I'm clean now. I got a safe place to sleep every night and I have people who are nice to me. Yeah. They're nice.
- Offred: All right.
- Lillie Fuller: And I wanna keep it that way.
- Serena Joy Waterford: I was thinking maybe we could try another way.
- Offred: I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean.
- Serena Joy Waterford: I mean with another man.
- Offred: It's forbidden!
- Serena Joy Waterford: Officially, yes, but women do it all the time. I'm sure you've heard the stories.
- Offred: We had choices then.
- The Commander: Now you have respect. You have protection, you can fulfill your biological destinies in peace.
- Offred: Biological destiny.
- The Commander: Children. What else is there to live for?
- Offred: Love.
- The Commander: Love?
- Offred: Yes.
- The Commander: [chuckles] Love isn't real. It was never anything more than lust, with a good marketing campaign.
- Offred: Maybe for you but not for me.
- The Commander: What did you say?
- Offred: Nothing.