Top 9 Quotes by Emily St. John Mandel

First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.

First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.

Emily St. John Mandel

Want, Firsts, Enough

"Station Eleven: A novel". Book by Emily St. John Mandel, 2014.

What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.

Emily St. John Mandel

Mean, Remember, Lost

Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.197, Vintage

If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. There’s nothing you can’t survive, because there’s nothing that you will not do.

Emily St. John Mandel

Light, Darkness, Enemy

Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.141, Vintage

No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.

Emily St. John Mandel

Thinking, People, Survival

Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.110, Vintage

There are certain qualities of light that blur the years.

Emily St. John Mandel

Light, Years, Quality

Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.139, Vintage

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.

Emily St. John Mandel

Dream, Baby, Halloween

Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.39, Vintage