Carla C.

“I don’t know, it just started to seem a little claustrophobic, living in the same place with the same people I’d known since I was born.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

“The number of things I’d failed to grasp back then was as limitless as the stars in the night sky.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“My point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“Everything offended Jessica, which is inevitable when you move through the world in search of offense.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility