What does not destroy me makes me stronger

(Nietzsche)

By telling you anything at all I’m at least believing in you, I believe you’re there, I believe you into being. Because I’m telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.

(Magaret Attwood - The Handmaid’s Tale)

And there is so much time to be endured, time as heavy as fried food or thick fog; and then all at once these red events, like explosions, on streets otherwise decorous and matronly and somnambulant.

(Margaret Attwood - The Handmaid’s Tale)