samantha

“We bemoaned the impersonality of the modern world, but that was a lie, it seemed to him; it had never been impersonal at all. There had always been a massive delicate infrastructure of people, all of them working unnoticed around us, and when people stop going to work, the entire operation grinds to a halt.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“the day’s just turned into yet another day, and you go on like that, looking forward to five o’clock and then the weekend and then your two or three annual weeks of paid vacation time, day in day out, and that’s what happens to your life.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“They’ve done what’s expected of them. They want to do something different but it’s impossible now, there’s a mortgage, kids, whatever, they’re trapped.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven