“...how outrageous could he get, in the realm of fatuous neologism, and still achieve praise?”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“Cocky nerds. My wife and I always talk about it. It's people who think they don't think ill of themselves --they actually think that there's something special about themselves but no one's noticed it... And that's what makes them interesting. They have an air of superiority as they're getting pummeled.”
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“Getting to work on the thing that you're always thinking about anyways is like the biggest--that's the goal.”
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“Human society, they claimed, was a sort of monster, its main by-products being corpses and rubble.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“When you're talking about the idea of loving your ex, and being able to hold on to that amidst all the other feelings of being heartbroken or sad or missing something that's gone --something dies when a relationship ends. It is a death because that thing that was the two of you together was alive and now it won't be and the only two people who really knew that thing was alive are the two of you. No one else knows.”
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