- Serena Joy Waterford: Please remove the damaged ones.
- Aunt Lydia Clements: Mrs. Waterford, ma'am, whatever punishment these girls had to endure was for the greater good. They deserve to be honored just like everyone else.
- Serena Joy Waterford: And we do honor them. But you don't put the bruised apples at the top of the crate. Do you?
- Janine Lindo: It's not fair!
- Aunt Lydia Clements: You're absolutely right. But sometimes we have to do what is best for everyone, not what is fair.
- Mrs. Castillo: You were arrested for inciting to riot, if I recall.
- Serena Joy Waterford: I had a temper in those days.
- Mrs. Castillo: Back then, did you ever imagine a society like this?
- Serena Joy Waterford: A society that has reduced its carbon emissions by 78 percent in 3 years.
- Mrs. Castillo: A society in which women can no longer read your book. Or anything else.
- Serena Joy Waterford: No. I didn't. God asks for sacrifices, Mrs. Castillo, that has always been His way, but He gives the righteous blessings in return, and I think that it's safe to say Gilead has been blessed in so many ways.
- Serena Joy Waterford: Things have to change.
- Fred Waterford: I know. There's still gonna be a lot of pain.
- Serena Joy Waterford: There's pain now - so much of it. We're saving them. We're doing God's work.
- Mrs. Castillo: I... can't help you.
- June Osborne: What're you gonna trade us for? Hm? What? Fucking chocolate? We're human beings. How can you do that? How? How?
- Mrs. Castillo: I am from Xipica, Miss Offred. It is nice city; maybe the size of Boston. There hasn't been a child born, alive, in Xipica in six years. My country is dying.
- June Osborne: [shakes head] My country's already dead.
- [first lines]
- June Osborne: Once. Actually two times, with him. Two times for me. Almost three. So close. It doesn't matter. It can never happen again. Sorry, Nick.
- Fred Waterford: Where are they? They were supposed to be seated when the ambassador got here.
- Serena Joy Waterford: Patience. Even the righteous need need a little show business.
- Alma: What did you hear?
- June Osborne: What does it matter, how many oranges we trade with Mexico?
- June Osborne: You think they want to trade oranges? Don't be an idiot. Gilead has only one thing that anyone wants. Red tags.
- Mrs. Castillo: May I ask - and I apologize if this is too personal - but you have chosen such a difficult life. Are you happy?
- June Osborne: [after a long pause] I have found... happiness.