"Name one hero who was happy... You can't. They never let you be famous and happy... I'm going to be the first. Swear it."
"Why me?"
“I’ll tell you what is convenient,” he said after a moment. “To sleep until noon and have someone bring you your breakfast on a tray. To cancel an appointment at the very last minute. To keep a carriage waiting at the door of one party, so that on a moment’s notice it can whisk you away to another. To sidestep marriage in your youth and put off having children altogether. These are the greatest of conveniences, Anushka—and at one time, I had them all. But in the end, it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most.”
 Title: Station Eleven
Author: Emily St. John Mandel
Date Read: May 7 2017 Published: September 9 2014 @ Knopf Genre: Adult Dystopian Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.” |
“Walking through Harlem first thing in the morning was like being a single drop of blood inside an enormous body that was waking up. Brick and mortar, elevated train tracks, and miles of underground pipe, this city lived; day and night it thrived.”
