expectation isn't the same as desire

Yelling is a form of publishing

Just as if you do a mash-up of reality from the point of view of African Americans in this country, you're going to end up with something that will say, "This is Black Lives Matter." It's not that people necessarily have started out from that premise. But if you're looking at reality, that will be the result because that is reality.

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

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.

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.

friendship was always contingent.