Alisa Nirko

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Old times, as my father used to say: If you’re not careful, they’ll gut you like a fish.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“She’d never believed in love at first sight but she did believe in recognition at first sight, she believed in understanding upon meeting someone for the first time that they were going to be important in her life, a sensation like recognizing a familiar face in an old photograph: in a sea of faces that mean nothing, one comes into focus. You.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

“This is my soul and the world unwinding, this is my heart in the still winter air.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven