Young love, thinks Felix wistfully. So good for the complexion.
You don’t take a hammer – not to mention an electric screwdriver and a pipe wrench – to a guy’s computer without being quite angry.
You can't help what you feel, Moira once said, but you can help how you behave.
You can mean more than one.You can mean thousands.I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you.I'll pretend you can hear me.But it's no good, because I know you can't.
While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end...
When the water’s moving faster than the boat, you can’t control a thing.
When I was younger I used to think that if I could hug myself tight enough I could make myself smaller, because there was never enough room for me, at home or anywhere, but if I was smaller then I wou...
When I saw that, the evidence left by two people, of love or something like it, desire at least, at least touch, between two people now perhaps old or dead, I covered the bed again and lay down on it....
What he couldn't have in life he might still catch sight of through his art: just a glimpse, from the corner of his eye
What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.
We were a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.
We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
We immortals aren't misers - we don't hoard! Such things are pointless.
We dangle by a flimsy thread,Our little lives are grains of sand:The Cosmos is a tiny sphereHeld in the hollow of God's hand.Give up your anger and your spite, And imitate the Deer, the Tree;In sweet...
We can see through all your disguises: the paths of day, the paths of darkness, whichever paths you take - we're right behind you, following you like a trail of smoke, like a long tail, a tail made of...
Watch out for the leaders, Crake used to say. First the leaders and the led, then the tyrants and the slaves, then the massacres. That’s how it’s always gone.
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.
Unlike some other religions, we have never felt it served a higher purpose to lie to children about geology.
Unlike Laura, I have never had the courage of my convictions.