“What became of you, Elizabeth, out there on the road with your son? But what, after all, had become of anyone? His parents, his colleagues, all his friends from his life before the airport, Robert? If all of them had vanished, uncounted and unmarked, why not Elizabeth too? He closed his eyes. Thinki…”— Emily St. John Mandel, amazon.comTagged: Air Gradia Flight 452, What Becomes
“Later that evening she would find herself troubled and at moments even a little amused by the memory of how casually everyone had once thrown the word collapse around, before anyone understood what the word truly meant.”— Emily St. John Mandel, amazon.comTagged: abstraction of words, Collapse
“One of the great scientific questions of Galileo's time was whether the Milky Way was made up of individual stars. Impossible to imagine this ever having been in question in the age of electricity, but the night sky was a wash of light in Galileo's age, and it was a wash of light now. The era of lig…”— Emily St. John Mandel, amazon.comTagged: Bright Stars, Electricity, Impossible Brightness, Milky Way, Light Pollution
“Miranda smiled at the thought that that there were people in this reeling world who were safe. She opened her eyes in time to see the sunrise. A wash of violent color, pink and streaks of brilliant orange, the container ships on the horizon suspended between the blaze of the sky and the water aflame…”— Emily St. John Mandel, amazon.comTagged: Burning Sky, Violent Colors, Color