Cait McKay

“They were rats because in all the books the driver had read that involved helpful talking animals, the animals were just too big. Horses and dragons and whatnot. But how do you discreetly move through the world with a dragon or a horse? It's untenable. Try taking a horse into a bar sometime. No, what you want, she said, is a pocket-sized animal sidekick, a rat for example.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“We knew it was coming and we were breezy about it.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“AS: Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

GR: Wait, did you just call me a lady?

AS: That was Shakespeare, son. Come on, now. Didn't you go to school?”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“I don't know what I was thinking," said Edwin. "Actually, no, that's not true. I do know. I am absolutely certain there was not a single thought in my head. It was like a kind of void.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility