222 Quotes by Emily St. John Mandel

There were a number of impractical shoes, stilettos mostly, beautiful and strange.

I believe when you’re speaking English, you’re allowed to refer to it as Prague.

Survival is insufficient.

Because he had been sleepwalking, Clark realized, moving half-asleep through the motions of his life for a while now, years; not specifically unhappy, but when had he last found real joy in his work? When was the last time he’d been truly moved by anything? When had he last felt awe or inspiration? He wished he could somehow go.

I don’t know, it just started to seem a little claustrophobic, living in the same place with the same people I’d known since I was born.

You can’t argue with them, because they live by an entirely different logic.

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

No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, pleas, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room. No more avatars.

A or B, two options present themselves, and you choose the one that seems best at the time.