Top 50 Quotes From The Handmaid's Tale, Season 2, Episode 10

Fred: I've planned a surprise for you. I think you'll like it.

Eden: It's the handmaid. You like her. Why do you like her?
Nick: You're not making any sense.
Eden: Please tell me!
Nick: You know I'd never get involved with a handmaid. It'd be suicide.
Eden: So you just don't love me?
Nick: Look, I'm sorry.

- Offred: Listen to my voice.
- This is your mother.
- I love you.
- And I always will.
- Okay?
- Mrs. Waterford wants to see you.

Serena: Offred,
- I've given it some thought.
- You'll be leaving the house as soon as the baby is born.
- I think we've all had more than enough of one other. Don't you?
- Offred: Iknowlshould accept the reality of you being born here, make my peace.
- But fuck that.

Emily: [first lines, voiceover] You treat it like a job. An unpleasant job to be gotten through as fast as possible. Kissing is forbidden; this makes it bearable. One detaches oneself. One describes. An act of copulation - fertilization, perhaps. No more to you than a bee is to a flower. You steel yourself. You pretend not to be present. Not in your flesh. You leave your body.

- June.
- June. We gotta go.
- Come on. Gotta get up.
- June, we gotta go.
- Get back in the house.

- I was thinking of making a sweet custard pie for tonight.
- Okay.
- Sounds good to me.
Martha: I'm making a stew but I was wondering what you suggest.
- A bisque or a stew would be nice, too.

Eden: Please forgive me, for I know not what I do. I have sinned against you and God, and I beg for mercy.
Nick: Don't worry about it.

Aunt: Single line, please.
- Rearrange the pillows properly. Towels here.
- Hi!
- Hi, little one.
- It's time to come out now.

- Oh, my baby.
- Hi. Hi.
- Hi, my Hannah banana.

- Her name is Agnes now.
- I'm sorry, honey.
- I didn't mean to scare you.
- I just...
- I just missed you so much.
- Do you remember me?
- Oh, my Hannah banana.

- "Go in unto her. And she shall bear upon my knees
- "that I may also have children by her."
- Offred: No! Stop!
- Commander Fred: "And she gave him her handmaid to wife,
- "and Jacob went in unto her!"
- Offred: Don't do this! Please!

Aunt: Mrs. Waterford.
Aunt: False labor foois the best of us.
- You might consider timing the contractions next time.
- I'm sorry, Mrs. Waterford.

June: I've already lost a child. I'm about to lose another one. It would help if I could be moved to my daughter's district. Please. If it is at all within your power to do that.
Fred: Who are you... to tell me... what's within my power?
June: I understand that it's unusual. I would never approach her. She would never even see me. I promise you that.
Fred: I've been too lenient with you. Too indulgent.
June: What?
Fred: I've spoiled you. Get out. GET OUT!
June: I shouldn't have expected you to understand. You have no idea what it is like to have a child... of your own flesh and blood. And you never will.

- Serena wants to send me to a new district.
- Does she?
- A change of scene, she said.
- And...
- That's not what you want?

- Wife: Good.
- Wife: Just breathe deep.
- Wives: Praise be.
- Good. Praise be.
- Wife 3: God is here with you.
- Wife 1: You're doing so well.

- Itwould help if I could be moved to my daughter's district.
- Please.
- If it is at all, within your power to do that.
- Who are you to tell me what's within my power?

- Just get inside.
- Okay. Just, just stay here.
- Stay here and hide.
- I'll be back.

- I love you.
- Now go.

- I shouldn't have expected you to understand.
- You have no idea what it is like to have a child of your own flesh and blood.
- And you never will.

- You have been kind to me.
- More than other commanders would have been.
- And you're going to be a father yourself soon.
- I need your help.
- What is it?

- I've been too lenient with you.
- Too indulgent.
- What?
- I've spoiled you.
- Get out.
- Get out!

- Please! No! [Sobbing] No!
- Offred: You treat it like a job.
- One detaches oneself...
- Offred: No more to you than a bee is to a flower.
- Not me.
- Not my flesh.

- You okay?
- Yeah, I'm all right.
- Let's go up.

[Teary] So, you just don't love me?
- Look, I'm sorry.
- Please stop crying.

- In a new district.
- A change of scene.
- Offred: You're right,
- Mrs. Waterford.
- It's been lovely, but I think it's probably best if we don't ever see each other again.

June: You treat it like a job. One detaches oneself. No more to you than a bee is to a flower... Not me. Not my flesh. I'm not here.

- Man: Ten minutes.
Hannah: She kind of looks like me.
Hannah: Can I see her?
- I like her hair.
- What if I turn it like this?

Commander's Wife: Roy?
- Oh, no!
- Get help!
- Chances are better if I lay on my back afterwards.
- What?
- Doris! Call the ambulance!

Eden: Contraction?
- Okay.
Eden: Help!
- She's going into labor.
Eden: Praise be. It's time.
- Han dmaid: Praise be.
Isaac: Stand back.

June: [voiceover] At least this is the last time I'll have to get into that fucking bed.

- June?
- What happened?
- What'd he do?
- June.
- Talk to me.
- Please, say something.

- She has forgotten her place.
- The doctor refuses to induce.
- There's nothing we can do but wait for the baby to come.
- Do you really think so?
- I suppose there are ways a baby might come out sooner.

Rita: It's such a waste.
- My mom always made my dad take out the trash.
- I got it.

- And to protect you.
- I wanted to.
- It's okay.
- I have new parents now.
- Come here, baby.
- Come sit with me.
- It's okay.

- I need you to be brave, okay, baby?
- So, what you're gonna do, is you're gonna take your Martha's hand.
- You're gonna get in the car.
- And you're gonna go home.
- Come here.

Rita: Sitting room. Thank you.
- I will take these.
- Dining room. Okay.

- You like her.
- Why do you like her?
- You're not making any sense.
- Just tell me!
- Eden, I would never get involved with a handmaid.
- It'd be suicide.

- Offred: At least this is the last time
- I'll have to get into that fucking bed.

- An act of copulation, fertilization perhaps.
- No more to you than a bee is to a flower.
- Offred: You steel yourself you pretend not to be present, not in the flesh.
- You leave your body.

- You don't touch me unless you have to.
- You've never kissed me,
- I've never been kissed until tonight!
- I'm your wife!
- You just caught me cheating on you!
- You should care!

- Woman: Praise be.
Alma: Oh, my god!
- Oferic: I know, right?
- I heard his wife had to get him off of her.
- I heard he was inside her.
- Handmaid: [Whispering] I know, that's what I heard, when they found her.

- Commander Fred: It's late.
- I know.

June: [to her unborn child] Listen to my voice. This is your mother. I love you. And I always will.

Roy's: Get help!
Emily: Chances are better if I lay on my back afterwards.

- Commander Fred: I've planned a surprise for you.
- I think you'll like it.
- Be back in three hours before
- Serena notices you're gone.
- They're expecting you.
- You deserve this.
- Don't let anyone else see you.

Aunt: Be courageous and do not fear, for god is with you.
- He will strengthen you, and help you.
- He will uphold you with his righteous hand.
- O blessed and glorious day!

- Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee.
- And before thou camest out of the womb, I sanctified thee and ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
- We did it, offred.
- And this is the will of god and we shall rejoice and be glad in it.
- No one knows the things of god.

- My handmaid is about to reach her expiration date.
- And she wasn't that much fun to begin with.
- How's yours?
- Well, she has proven fruitful.
- Grinnell: Mmm.
- And not bad looking, either?

Eden: Don't you care? Why don't you care?
Nick: It's okay. You're not in trouble.
Eden: You don't look at me. You don't touch me unless you have to. You've never kissed me - I've never been kissed until tonight. I'm your wife! You just caught me cheating on you - you should care!