Station Eleven Quotes

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Emily St. John Mandel
“Dear V.,
I'm a terrible actor and this city is fucking freezing and I miss you.
- A.”
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel
“She never feels more alive than at these moments. When onstage she fears nothing.”
Emily St. John Mandel , Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel
“Viola had a harrowing story about riding a bicycle west out of the burnt-out ruins of a Connecticut suburb, aged fifteen, harboring vague notions of California but set upon by passersby long before she got there, grievously harmed, joining up with other half feral teenagers in a marauding gang and then slipping away from them, walking alone for a hundred miles, whispering French to herself because all the horror in her life had transpired in English and she thought switching languages might save her, wandering into a town through which the Symphony passed five years later.”
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel
“If nothing else, it's pleasant to consider the possibility. He likes the thought of ships moving over the water, toward another world just out of sight.”
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel
“The wren goes to't”
Emily St John-Mandel

Emily St. John Mandel
“People want what was best about the world.”
Emily St. John Mandel

Emily St. John Mandel
“I have found you nine times before, maybe 10, and I'll find you again”
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel
“That's one thing I like about birthdays, they stay in one place. Same spot on the calendar, year in, year out.”
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel
“Wistful in advance for the present moment.”
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“... חשב על הגלידה שהוא ופרנק הכינו עם אמם בילדותם - "מוסיפים את הווניל ובוחשים" - כשפרנק עמד על שרפרף בשתי רגליו שהיו עדיין בריאות להפליא לפני המלחמה בלוב, והקליע שיחתוך את שדרתו היה במרחק עשרים וחמש שנה אבל כבר הלך והתקרב: אישה ילדה את הילד שביום מן הימים ילחץ על הדק הרובה; מהנדס תכנן את הרובה, או את הדגם שקדם לו; ורודן קיבל את ההחלטה שברבות הימים תצית את הסכסוך שבגללו ייסע פרנק אל מעבר לים בשירותה של סוכנות הידיעות רויטרס. שברי אירועים שנסחפו אט-אט זה אל זה.”
Mandel, Emily St. John