To want is to have a weakness. - Margaret Atwood

To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.

Those walls and bars are there for a reason,” said Crake. “Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in both cases.” “Them?” “Nature and God.” “I thought you didn’t believe in God,” said Jimmy. “I don’t believe in Nature either,” said Crake. “Or not with a capital N.

Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.