Emily St. John Mandel Quotes
Top 83 wise famous quotes and sayings by Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Dr. Eleven: What was it like for you, at the end?
Captain Lonagan: It was exactly like waking up from a dream.
Captain Lonagan: It was exactly like waking up from a dream.
She started to explain her project to him again but the words stopped in her throat. 'You don't have to understand it,' she said. 'It's mine.
but mostly his work just made him dislike houses. These enormous anchors that people tied to their lives.
I don't believe in the perfectibility of the individual. What was it in this statement that made Clark want to weep?
Cold rain, the sidewalk shining, the shhh of car tires on the wet street. Thinking about the terrible gulf of years between eighteen and fifty.
The stillness of the water, the horizon framed by other glass towers and miniature boats drifting in the distance.
She is beautiful in a way that makes people forget what they were going to say when they look at her.
First we only want to be seen, but once we're seen, that's not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.
A tired king at the end of his reign, perhaps not as sharp as he had been, contemplating a disastrous division of his kingdom.
was one of those large, under-lit places that seemed to recede into shadow at the periphery, and in the murky middle
So this is how it ends, she thought, when the call was over, and she was soothed by the banality of it.
The thing with the new world," the tuba had said once, "is it's just horrifically short on elegance.
All of the information in the world is on the Internet, and the Internet is all around you, drifting through the air like pollen on a summer breeze.
Of all of them there at the bar that night, the bartender was the one who survived the longest. He died three weeks later on the road out of the city.
She wants to believe they're lying in moonlight, but she knows the light through the window is probably mostly electric.
No one ever thinks they're awful, even people who really actually are. It's some sort of survival mechanism.
Do you remember when you were young and gorgeous? Clark wanted to ask. Do you remember when everything seemed limitless?
He was half-naked in the bed, lying like a starfish. After she got up he always liked to see how much of the bed he could sleep on at once.
No more pharmaceuticals. No more certainty of surviving a scratch on one's hand, a cut on a finger while chopping vegetables for dinner, a dog bite.
Jeevan's understanding of disaster preparedness was based entirely on action movies, but on the other hand, he'd seen a lot of action movies. He
They are always waiting, the people of the Undersea. They spend all their lives waiting for their lives to begin. Miranda
Not merely pretty, he decides. She is actually beautiful, but it's a subtle kind of beauty that takes some time to make itself apparent.
They acted because they loved acting, but also, let's be honest here, to be noticed. All they wanted was to be seen.
Because we are always looking for the former world, before all the traces of the former world are gone.
TWENTY YEARS AFTER the end of air travel, the caravans of the Traveling Symphony moved slowly under a white-hot sky.
She had been overtipping for as long as she'd had money. These small compensations for how fortunate she'd been.
The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?
Survival might be insufficient, she'd told Dieter in late-night arguments, but on the other hand, so was Shakespeare.
It's the work itself that's important to me.' Miranda is aware of how pretentious this sounds, but is it still pretentious if it's true?
it is possible to survive this but not unaltered, and you will carry these men with you through all the nights of your life.