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But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in… — Margaret Atwood

Novel · Dystopian fiction

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale · 1985
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Topic
SufferingHealingEmotional scars
Genre
Dystopian fiction
Medium
Novel
Time
1985
Person
Margaret Atwood
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Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 21.

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