Noor

“even now, all these centuries later, for all our technological advances, all our scientific knowledge of illness, we still don’t always know why one person gets sick and another doesn’t, or why one patient survives and another dies. Illness frightens us because it’s chaotic. There’s an awful randomness about it.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“If there’s pleasure in action, there’s peace in stillness.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“beautiful glass paperweight from a museum gift shop in Rome.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“everything cheap-looking and highly flammable.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven