Oryx and Crake Quotes

“Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:love

“If you take ‘mortality’ as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then ‘immortality’ is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you’ll be...”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:death fear

“We understand more than we know.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:knowledge understanding

“After everything that’s happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:beauty world

“Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:nature

“He doesn’t know which is worse, a past he can’t regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there’s the future. Sheer vertigo.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:future past present

“They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:imagination

“There’s something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you’re still alive.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:living

“When any civilization is dust and ashes . . . art is all that’s left over.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

topic:art

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