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

“I’m talking about these people who’ve ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed.”
― 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