What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.

- Emily St. John Mandel

Love is like the lion’s tooth.

- Emily St. John Mandel

First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.

- Emily St. John Mandel

There are certain qualities of light that blur the years.

- Emily St. John Mandel

I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.

- Emily St. John Mandel

No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.

- Emily St. John Mandel

If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. There’s nothing you can’t survive, because there’s …

- Emily St. John Mandel

Hell is the absence of the people you long for.

- Emily St. John Mandel

No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and…

- Emily St. John Mandel