Everything offended Jessica, which is inevitable when you move through the world in search of offense. - Emily St. John Mandel

It’s shocking to wake up in one world and find yourself in another by nightfall, but the situation isn’t actually all that unusual. You wake up married, then your spouse dies over the course of the day; you wake up in peacetime and by noon your country is at war; you wake up in ignorance and by the evening it’s clear that a pandemic is already here.

The horse, Bernstein, was missing half his tail, because the first cello had just restrung his bow last week.

I would rather do a dangerous job than a job that makes me comatose with boredom.