"Station Eleven" Quotes
After a flu pandemic wipes out most of the world's population, a traveling theater troupe and a group of survivors navigate a post-apocalyptic world in search of connection and meaning.
fiction | 333 pages | Published in 2014
Quotes
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?
Survival is insufficient.
I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.
First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.
The more you remember, the more you’ve lost.
I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say ‘bless you’ when someone sneezes, a leftover from the old days. Doesn’t it feel sweet that we don’t need to say ‘bless you’ anymore?
What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.
We long only to go home. We dream of home, but we do not go home, we are at home.
This is what I mean when I say the world is demented. The sheer volume of printed material is extraordinary. It’s a wonder the world hasn’t been submerged. But it has been submerged. It’s been submerged by the flood of information, of data, of messages, of media, of images, of stories, of people, of books.
