Emily

“We’re all of us afraid of many things, but if you make yourself smaller or let your fear confine you, then you really aren’t your own person at all—are you? The real question is whether or not you will risk what it takes to be happy.”
― Paula McLain, Circling the Sun

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

“Things come that we never would have predicted for ourselves or even guessed at. And yet they change us for ever.”
― Paula McLain, Circling the Sun

“Survival is insufficient.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven