Gabriela Hedlund > Gabriela's Quotes

“she knows the way she dies a little every time someone asks her for change and she doesn’t give it to them means that she’s too soft for this world”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“There’s a brief period most nights when the two moons float side by side on the surface. The fake moon, which has the advantage of being closer and not obscured by smog, is almost always brighter than the real one.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“We were not meant for this world. Let us go home.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“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, Station Eleven

“All of the information in the world is on the Internet, and the Internet is all around you, drifting through the air like pollen on a summer breeze.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days or unseen and infrequently thought of. How without any one of these people the world is a subtly but unmistakably altered place, the dial turned just one or two degrees.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“I was there,” and the thought pierced him through with an admixture of sadness and exhilaration.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“These taken-for-granted miracles that had persisted all around them.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“these men for whom the ocean was a gray-line horizon to be traversed in ships the size of overturned skyscrapers.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven