Emily

“Oh." It seemed I'd surprised him. "There isn't a lot of that kind of thinking around here."

"Of course there is," I told him, trying to draw a smile. "It's just usually a man who's doing it.”
― Paula McLain, Circling the Sun

“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“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