222 Quotes by Emily St. John Mandel

She was unsettling. But sometimes there was something perfect about it.

She works on her never-ending project for hours at a time. In art school they talked about day jobs in tones of horror. She never would have imagined that her day job would be the calmest and least cluttered part of her life.

A fragment for my friend--If your soul left this earth I would follow and find youSilent, my starship suspended in night

...You know, if you don't have to be alone, then maybe you shouldn't be."Olivia, who was almost always alone, couldn't think of anything to say to this.

He remembered being here with Clark at three or four sometimes five in the morning, during what seemed at the time like adulthood and seemed in retrospect like a dream.

He never had time to read on the outside, but here he joins a book club where they discuss The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned and Tender Is The Night with a fervent young professor who seems unaware that anyone other than F. Scott Fitzgerald has ever written a book.

(Idea for a ghost story: a woman gets old and falls out of time and realizes that she’s become invisible.)

Memories are always bent retrospectively to fit individual narratives

Do you remember when we were young and gorgeous?