Helene

“We must bend in the wind sometimes.... So much is beyond our control.

[Mrs. Fahey]”
― Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

“She had a window seat and was all but curled around her armrest, trying to stay as far from other people as possible. The surface of the moon rose out of blackness, bright from a distance and gray up close, the opaque bubbles of Colonies One, Two and Three gleaming in the sunlight.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“Because we might reasonably think of the end of the world,” Olive said, “as a continuous and never-ending process.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“We sent an agent back to another century,” Zoey said, “but the agent fell in love with someone and didn’t want to come home, so she removed her own tracker, fed it to a cat, and then when we tried to forcibly return her to the present, the cat appeared in the travel chamber instead of her.” “Wait,” I said, “my cat’s from another century?” “Your cat’s from 1985,” she said. “What,” I said, at a loss for words.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility