Emily St. John Mandel

Quotes

• “Miranda opened her eyes in time to see the sunrise. A wash of violent color, pink and streaks of brilliant orange, the c...”
• “The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people ...”
• “She liked books, but the hours spent in small-town libraries were tedious, and she began the first list when she was eig...”
• “She knows there are traps everywhere that can make her cry, she knows the way she dies a little every time someone asks ...”
• “Twenty years earlier, in a life [Kirsten] mostly couldn’t remember, she had had a small nonspeaking role in a short-live...”
• “She works on her never-ending project for hours at a time. In art school they talked about day jobs in tones of horror. ...”
• “I was thinking earlier that to know this city you must first become penniless, because pennilessness (real pennilessness...”
• “If you write literary fiction that’s set partly in the future, you’re apparently a sci-fi writer ... I think of it as be...”
• “All of this,' the prophet said, serene, 'all of our activities, Sayid, you must understand this, all of your suffering, ...”
• “He found he was a man who repented almost everything, regrets crowding in around him like moths to a light. This was act...”
• “What she aspired to was a kind of delirious perfection. What Lilia wanted was to travel, but not only that; she wanted t...”
• “If nothing else, it's pleasant to consider the possibility. He likes the thought of ships moving over the water, toward ...”
• “Are you asking if I believe in ghosts?""I don't know. Maybe. Yes.""Of course not. Imagine how many there'd be.""Yes," Ki...”
• “To survive is not enough. To simply exist... is not enough!' - Roga Danar”
• “Adulthood’s full of ghosts... High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.”
• “The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.”
• “People want what was best about the world.”
• “The wren goes to't”