What's the difference between vision and a vision? The former relates to something it's assumed you've seen, the latter to something it's assumed you haven't. Language is not always dependable either.
What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!
We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Nothing
Watch out for art, Crake used to say. As soon as they start doing art, we’re in trouble. Symbolic thinking of any kind would signal downfall, in Crake’s view. Next they’d be inventing idols, and funer...
Today I speak to my bones as I would speak to a dog. I want to go up the stairs, I tell them. Up, up, up, with one leg dragging. Is the ache deep in the bones, this elusive pain? Does that mean it wil...
This puts him in an instructive mood, and I can see he is going to teach me something, which gentlemen are fond of doing.
Thinking can hurt your chances, and I intend to last
There is the staircase,there is the sun.There is the kitchen,the plate with toast and strawberry jam,your subterfuge,your ordinary mirage.You stand red-handed.You want to wash yourself in earth, in ro...
There is no fool like an educated fool...
The worst of it was that those people out there-the fear, the suffering the wholesale death-did not really touch him. Crake used to say that was not hard-wired to individuate other people in numbers...
The rest of his life. How long that time had once felt to him. How quickly it has sped by. How much of it has been wasted. How soon it will be over.
The leader had a beard and was wearing a caftan that looked as if it had been sewn by elves on hash.
The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
Stan got the message. He allowed the chicken assignations. What did that make him? A chicken pimp. Better than dead.
So many crucial events take place behind people’s backs, when they aren’t in a position to watch: birth and death, for instance. And the temporary oblivion of sex. Don’t even think about it, he tells...
She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.
She had loved him, uselessly.
She doesn't make speeches anymore. She has become speechless. She stays in her home, but it doesn't seem to agree with her. How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.
Pain marks you, but too deep to see.