"Oryx And Crake" Quotes
In a post-apocalyptic world, a man named Snowman reflects on his past and the events that led to the destruction of humanity.
fiction | 229 pages | Published in 2009
Quotes
In the beginning was the Word. Before the beginning was the World. In the World was the City, in the City was the Tower.
It wasn't the sex that undid them, it was the love.
People can be so heartless and cruel.
The sixties were an era of protest and rebellion, the seventies an era of reaction, but the eighties were the era of conspicuous consumption.
As the saying goes, you don't miss your water until your well runs dry.
God is love, they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner.
There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.
He’s in his own world, she said; but it was a world she knew how to enter.
The sun is the same, but the way it strikes on this earth is always changing.
Humanity is always just one step away from cannibalism.
