# Quote — Emily St John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

> “But all of this raises an interesting question,” Olive said. “What if it always is the end of the world?”
>
> She paused for effect. Before her, the holographic audience was almost perfectly still. “Because we might reasonably think of the end of the world,” Olive said, “as a continuous and never-ending process.”

- Author: [Emily St John Mandel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel.md)
- Book: [Sea of Tranquility](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel/sea-of-tranquility.md)
- Page: 190
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emily_St._John_Mandel#Sea_of_Tranquility_(2022)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel/sea-of-tranquility/but-all-of-this

## More from this book

> Sometimes you don’t know you’re going to throw a grenade until you’ve already pulled the pin.

p. 14 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel/sea-of-tranquility/sometimes-you-dont.md)

> Isn’t that reality? Won’t most of us die in fairly unclimactic ways, our passing unremarked by almost everyone, our deaths becoming plot points in the narratives of the people around us?

p. 96 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel/sea-of-tranquility/isnt-that-reality.md)

> 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.

p. 151 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel/sea-of-tranquility/what-you-have.md)