The Lola Quartet Quotes

“The novelty of our adventure was wearing thin, but not because our feet hurt and we were constantly blaming each other for the forgotten sunscreen. There was some other thing that we could not clearly explain. The farther we ventured, the more everything looked the same, as if each new street, park, or shopping mall was simply another version of our own, made from the same giant assembly kit. Only the names were different.” Shaun Tan Tales from Outer Suburbia”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Lola Quartet

“Django Reinhardt was always good, but he was at his best with Stéphane Grappelli.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Lola Quartet

“She put on her headphones and listened to electronica—an epiphany from childhood: when all lies in disarray there’s still order in music”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Lola Quartet

“She liked electronica, mostly ’80s stuff that didn’t move him, New Order singing about a thousand islands in the sea.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Lola Quartet

“This was what had caught her once, and held her here: once you stepped beyond the slot machines—and even these held a certain glinting allure— the casino was beautiful. White-and-gold ceilings arcing high between mahogany pillars, complicated parquet floors and thick carpets. When everything else around her had been squalid, there had always been this. This place had always held beauty even when it was killing her and the beauty reached her even now, even knowing what she did about how much could be lost here.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Lola Quartet

“Sasha found herself at a loss for words. What am I asking you? I'm asking you if I was complicit in something unspeakable, because Anna, Anna, I already carry so much.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Lola Quartet

“but mostly his work just made him dislike houses. These enormous anchors that people tied to their lives.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Lola Quartet