"'Your friend is intellectually honourable,' Jimmy's mother would say. 'He doesn't lie to himself."' Page 69
"Snowman, tell us please about the deeds of Crake." Page 102
"The little girls laughed about the germs, because they didn't believe in them; but they believed about the disease, because they'd seen that happen. Spirits caused it, everyone knew that. Spirits and bad luck. Jack had not said the right prayers." Pages 140-141
"He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo." Page 147
"He feels like weeping. Then he hears a voice - his own! - saying boohoo; he sees it, as if it's a printed word in a comic-strip balloon. Water leaks down his face." Page 161
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