A language is everything you do.

Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.

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

So Crake never remembered his dreams. It's Snowman that remembers them instead. Worse than remembers: he's immersed in them, he'd wading through them, he's stuck in them. Every moment he's lived in the past few months was dreamed first by Crake. No wonder Crake screamed so much.

We've learned to see the world in gasps.