Emily St. John Mandel Quote

It is more important to go slow and gain the lessons you need along the journey then to rush the process and arrive at your destination empty.

Suppose that we could close our eyes today and see the real certainties and uncertainties of tomorrow, we would have never wished to open our eyes again for the real certainties and uncertainties of t...

People always start with vigor, deep aspirations and inspirations, but things that happen as we journey and our reactions towards such things, fantasies and realities, determine the real robustness of...

Death is like that, it blinks, we blink; not always able to see the Stop signs, hiding behind trees in the corner of the roads.

Losing something happens in a day. An end takes one day. We all seem to focus on that one day, on that ending, rather than on the beautiful story that was created before the end came. We are obsessed...

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the catwalk. Rust and scaling paint. They pushed into the cab and he blew away the ash from the...

You'll write to me, won't you? Albus asked his parents immediately, capitalizing on the momentary absence of his brother.Every day, if you want us to, said Ginny.Not day, said Albus quickly. James sa...

And when the end comes, we shall see the end. We shall see and understand how we started better. We shall see those who started well and those who ended well. When the end comes, we shall surely see t...

No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has j...