What stands in the way is the way.

Love only what befalls thee and is spun for thee by fate. For what can be more befitting for thee?

God give me patience to reconcile with what I am not able to change. Give me strength to change what I can. And give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can't get me out of the story. I'm the plot, babe, and don't ever forget it.

You need to be strong. They were trying to make things better. But it can put a lot of pressure on a person to be told they need to be strong.

It was Crake preserving his dignity, because the alternative would have been losing it.

I wish I knew what You were up to. But whatever it is, help me to get through it, please. Though maybe it's not Your doing; I don't believe for an instant that what's going on out there is what You meant. I have enough daily bread, so I won't waste time on that. It isn't the main problem. The problem is getting it down without choking on it.

Every war is the war for whoever's lived through it.

I will bend, I will touch the ground, or as close to it as I can get without rupture. I will lay a wreath of invisible money on her grave.

Once they tried to save something, others or their own souls.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that, I can do nothing. I have to recant, give up the old belief that I am powerless and and because of it nothing I can do will ever hurt anyone. A lie which was always more disastrous than the truth would have been.