“ Dear V.,I'm a terrible actor and this city is fucking freezing and I miss you.- A. Emily St. John Mandel
“ He placed a pinch of snow on his tongue and thought of making snow ice cream with Frank and their mother when they were small boys - 'First you stir in the vanilla' - Frank standing on a stool on his… Emily St. John Mandel
“ All of this,' the prophet said, serene, 'all of our activities, Sayid, you must understand this, all of your suffering, it's all part of a greater plan.''You'd be surprised at how little comfort I tak… Emily St. John Mandel
“ He wished he could somehow go back and find the iPhone people whom he'd jostled on the sidewalk earlier, apologize to them - I'm sorry, I've just realized that I'm as minimally present in this world a… Emily St. John Mandel
“ Twenty years earlier, in a life [Kirsten] mostly couldn’t remember, she had had a small nonspeaking role in a short-lived Toronto production of King Lear. Now she walked in sandals whose soles had bee… Emily St. John Mandel
“ He has no interest in comics. He doesn’t understand the difference between serious graphic novels and Saturday-morning cartoons with wide-eyed tweetybirds and floppy-limbed cats. Emily St. John Mandel
“ One of the few things that August didn't know about her was that sometimes when she looked at her collection of pictures she tried to imagine and place herself in that other, shadow life. You walk int… Emily St. John Mandel
“ He was just another dead man on another road, answerless, the bearer of another unfathomable story about walking out of one world and into another. Emily St. John Mandel
“ She knows there are traps everywhere that can make her cry, 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 thi… Emily St. John Mandel
“ Há dinheiro, pedaços de papel que podem ser trocados por qualquer coisa: casas, barcos, dentes perfeitos. Emily St. John Mandel
“ OK, suponhamos que vai à copa - disse ela -, e duas pessoas que quem gosta estão lá, suponhamos que uma das pessoas está a contar uma história divertida, você ri-se um pouco, sente-se incluído, toda a… Emily St. John Mandel
“ So this is how it ends, she thought, when the call was over, and she was soothed by the banality of it. Emily St. John Mandel
“ Clark observa a actividade nocturna na pista, os aviões que estão parados à vinte anos, o reflexo da sua vela bruxuleante no vidro. Não tem esperança de ver um avião levantar voo novamente no seu temp… Emily St. John Mandel
“ The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it? Perhaps soon humanity would simply flicker out, but Kirsten found this th… Emily St. John Mandel
