Austin Dowell

“An interesting question,” Olive said, “which I’d like to consider in these last few minutes, is why there’s been such interest in postapocalyptic literature over this past decade or so. I’ve had the tremendous good fortune of getting to travel a great deal in the service of Marienbad—”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“But if a story has all the elements, it will be legend around here, where we love our neighbors so much we can’t stop talking about them.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“He makes a careful inventory of his thoughts and decides that he isn’t unhappy. He just desires no further movement, for the time being. If there’s pleasure in action, there’s peace in stillness”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility