222 Quotes by Emily St. John Mandel

Love is like the lion's tooth.

...he was just another dead man on another road, answerless, the bearer of another unfathomable story about walking out of one world and into another.

So this is how it ends, she thought, when the call was over, and she was soothed by the banality of it.

Nothing is over yet, she told herself. The cat's still inside.

This one's my other favorite. 'He's successful in interfacing with clients we already have, but as for new clients, it's low-hanging fruit. He takes a high-altitude view, but he doesn't drill down to that level of granularity where we might actionize new opportunities.'"Clark winced. "I remember that one. I think I may have had a minor stroke in the office when he said that.

Why did we always say we were going to shoot emails?""I don't know. I've wondered that, too.""Why couldn't we just say we were going to send them? We were just pressing a button, were we not?""Not even a real button. A picture of a button on a screen.

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.

Κόλαση είναι η απουσία των ανθρώπων που λαχταράς.

I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.