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“The night sky was brighter than it had been. On the clearest nights the stars were a cloud of light across the breadth of the sky, extravagant in their multitudes . . . The era of light pollution had come to an end. The increasing brilliance meant the grid was failing, darkness pooling over the earth. I was here for the end of electricity. The thought sent shivers up Clark's spine.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Memories are always bent retrospectively to fit individual narratives”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

“They are always waiting, the people of the Undersea. They spend all their lives waiting for their lives to begin.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“But the trouble, is she doesn’t really care. There was a time when this conversation would have reduced her to tears, but now she swivels in her chair to look out at the lake and thinks about moving trucks. She could call in sick to work, pack up her things, and be gone in a few hours. It is sometimes necessary to break everything.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven