23 quotes
Everything offended Jessica, which is inevitable when you move through the world in search of offense.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
She is beautiful in a way that makes people forget what they were going to say when they look at her.
Station Eleven (2014)
Hell is the absence of the people you long for.
Station Eleven (2014)
What is time travel if not a security problem?
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
Sometimes you don’t know you’re going to throw a grenade until you’ve already pulled the pin.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
Miranda is aware of how pretentious this sounds, but is it still pretentious if it’s true?
Station Eleven (2014)
Tesch seems to be someone who mistakes rudeness for intellectual rigor.
Station Eleven (2014)
She tried to keep this opinion to herself and occasionally succeeded.
Station Eleven (2014)
If there’s pleasure in action, there’s peace in stillness.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
What you have to understand is that bureaucracy is an organism, and the prime goal of every organism is self-protection. Bureaucracy exists to protect itself.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
If definitive proof emerges that we’re living in a simulation, the correct response to that news will be So what. A life lived in a simulation is still a life.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
I would rather do a dangerous job than a job that makes me comatose with boredom.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
It’s possible that no one who didn’t grow up in a small place can understand how beautiful this is, how the anonymity of city life feels like freedom.
Station Eleven (2014)
Isn’t that reality? Won’t most of us die in fairly unclimactic ways, our passing unremarked by almost everyone, our deaths becoming plot points in the narratives of the people around us?
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
The horse, Bernstein, was missing half his tail, because the first cello had just restrung his bow last week.
Station Eleven (2014)
Twenty-third Street wasn’t busy—a little early for the lunch crowd—but he kept getting trapped behind iPhone zombies, people half his age who wandered in a dream with their eyes fixed on their screens.
Station Eleven (2014)
This whole place is death. No, that’s unfair—this place isn’t death, this place is indifference. This place is utterly neutral on the question of whether he lives or dies; it doesn’t care about his last name or where he went to school; it hasn’t even noticed him.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
There occurred an incident that struck me at the time as some kind of supernatural event, but seems to me in retrospect to have been perhaps some kind of fit.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)
He found he was a man who repented almost everything, regrets crowding in around him like moths to a light. This was actually the main difference between twenty-one and fifty-one, he decided, the sheer volume of regret.
Station Eleven (2014)
She never dwelt on my lapses, and I couldn’t entirely parse why this made me feel so awful. There’s a low-level, specific pain in having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones.
Sea of Tranquility (2022)