he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.

“Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not…”

“She'd stepped out of sex as if out of a loose dress. Now she was brisk, decisiv…”

“Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I’m in better shape …”

“I’ve been prepared for almost anything; except absence, except silence.”