222 Quotes by Emily St. John Mandel

She was thinking about the container-ship fleet on the horizon. The crew out there wouldn’t have been exposed to the flu. Too late to get to a ship herself now, but she smiled at the thought that there were people in this reeling world who were safe.

If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in night.

Lately time had been stuttering a little.

Do you have to actually be in love for a relationship to be real, whatever real means, so long as there’s respect and something like friendship?

Jeevan was crushed by a sudden certainty that this was it, that this illness that Hua was describing was going to be the divide between a before and an after, a line drawn through his life. p20.

That’s the trouble with land. It’s got too many people on it.

Miranda,” he said. “How long has it been?” This seemed to her a silly question. She’d assumed, she realized, that everyone remembers the date of their divorce, the same way everyone remembers their wedding date. “Eleven years,” she said.

High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.

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.