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“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

“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