Hello. Here is a list of 10 quotes that I liked and saved while reading Sea of Tranquility book by Emily St. John Mandel. I hope you will like them too. By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
Sea of Tranquility Quotes
- Sometimes you don’t know you’re going to throw a grenade until you’ve already pulled the pin. – Quote from Sea of Tranquility book by Emily St. John Mandel
- The trouble with Victoria, is that it’s too much like England without actually being England. It’s a far-distant simulation of England, a watercolor superimposed unconvincingly on the landscape. – Quote from Sea of Tranquility book by Emily St. John Mandel
- There’s something to be said for looking up at a clear blue sky and knowing that it isn’t a dome. – Quote from Sea of Tranquility book by Emily St. John Mandel
- The truth is, even now, all these centuries later, for all our technological advances, all our scientific knowledge of illness, we still don’t always know why one person gets sick and another doesn’t, or why one patient survives and another dies. Illness frightens us because it’s chaotic. There’s an awful randomness about it. – Quote from Sea of Tranquility book by Emily St. John Mandel
- Pandemics don’t approach like wars, with the distant thud of artillery growing louder every day and flashes of bombs on the horizon. They arrive in retrospect, essentially. It’s disorienting. The pandemic is far away and then it’s all around you, with seemingly no intermediate step. – Quote from Sea of Tranquility book by Emily St. John Mandel
- There’s a low-level, specific pain in having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones. – Quote from Sea of Tranquility book by Emily St. John Mandel
- What you have to understand is that bureaucracy is an organism, and the prime goal of every organism is self-protection. Bureaucracy exists to protect itself. – Quote from Sea of Tranquility book by Emily St. John Mandel
- This is the strange lesson of living in a pandemic: life can be tranquil in the face of death. – Quote from Sea of Tranquility book by Emily St. John Mandel
- If definitive proof emerges that we’re living in a simulation, the correct response to that news will be So what. A life lived in a simulation is still a life. – Quote from Sea of Tranquility book by Emily St. John Mandel
- I’ve been thinking a great deal about time and motion lately, about being a still point in the ceaseless rush. – Quote from Sea of Tranquility book by Emily St. John Mandel