If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.

On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.

Don't confuse contentment with happiness.

If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.

Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.

Then a person has only one tale?” No, some have two or three separate ones or more,” Fleet said. “Some people have many tales. Sometimes they are linked into one big tale, sometimes they are utterly distinct. Most people do not have one at all.

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?