Life is warped. I'm just in sync.
I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather no shadow unless there is also light.
Gender roles suck, says Swift Fox.Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.
And then she began to cry, and when I asked her why she was doing that, she said it was because I was to have a happy ending, and it was just like a book; and I wondered what books she'd been reading.
According to Tobias, women hang around longer because they’re less capable of indignation and better at being humiliated, for what is old age but one long string of indignities? What person of integri...
This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.
It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor's wife should cut them all out and paste them into her scrapbook.
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.
So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means.
Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seen—to be —is to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.
Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katherine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their min...
You cynical shit, he told himself. Then he started to weep. Don't be so fucking sentimental, Crake used to tell him. But why not? Why shouldn't he be sentimental? It wasn't as if there was anyone arou...
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. We put on display our framed photographs, our par...
The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. —the archaic language of unrequited love. I was irritated with such words, which rendered the unha...
O, lente, lente currite noctis equi!
I wonderif I should let my hair go greyso my advice will be better.
The male frog in mating season, said Crake, makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with...
It's a wonder they can sit down at all, and when they walk, nothing touches their legs under the billowing skirts, except their shifts and stockings. They are like swans, drifting along on unseen feet...
I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an earlier, mythological life of his own. Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, the...