222 Quotes by Emily St. John Mandel

Twenty years earlier, in a life [Kirsten] mostly couldn’t remember, she had had a small nonspeaking role in a short-lived Toronto production of King Lear. Now she walked in sandals whose soles had been cut from an automobile tire, three knives in her belt.

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?

Porque sobreviver não é suficiente.

She never feels more alive than at these moments. When onstage she fears nothing.

Dear V.,I'm a terrible actor and this city is fucking freezing and I miss you.- A.

everyone makes mistakes, but those mistakes are typically more on the order of forgetting to pay a phone bill, or leaving the oven on for a couple hours after dinner, or entering the wrong number into a spreadsheet. Perpetuating a multibillion-dollar fraud over a period of decades is something entirely different.

He wished he could somehow go back and find the iPhone people whom he'd jostled on the sidewalk earlier, apologize to them - I'm sorry, I've just realized that I'm as minimally present in this world as you are, I had no right to judge -

To survive is not enough. To simply exist... is not enough!' - Roga Danar

Paul had the impression he often had in the United Kingdom, of having just been subtly insulted in an obscure way that would take too much energy to parse, and as always he couldn't tell if the insult was real or just a typically Canadian case of postcolonial insecurity.