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Quotes from Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel

born 1979 Canada

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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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

The journalist is beautiful in the manner of people who spend an immense amount of money on personal maintenance. She has professionally refined pores and a four-hundred-dollar haircut, impeccable makeup and tastefully polished nails. When she smiles, Arthur is distracted by the unnatural whiteness of her teeth, although he’s been in Hollywood for years and should be used to it by now.

Station Eleven (2014)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Emily St. John Mandel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.