Twenty-third Street wasn’t busy—a little early for the lunc… - Emily St. John Mandel

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Twenty-third Street wasn’t busy—a little early for the lunch crowd—but he kept getting trapped behind iPhone zombies, people half his age who wandered in a dream with their eyes fixed on their screens.

Emily St. John Mandel

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About Emily St. John Mandel

Emily St. John Mandel (born 1979) is a Canadian novelist.

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Alternative Names: Emily St. John Fairbanks

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They call themselves the light."
"What about it?"
"If you are the light," she said, "then your enemies are darkness, right?"
"I suppose."
"If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there's nothing that you cannot justify. There's nothing you can't survive, because there's nothing that you will not do.

Miranda is aware of how pretentious this sounds, but is it still pretentious if it’s true?

“My secret is, I hate people,” the woman said, very sincerely, and for the first time Mirella liked her.
“All people?”
“All except maybe like three,” she said.

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