# Quote — Emily St John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

> She never dwelt on my lapses, and I couldn’t entirely parse why this made me feel so awful. 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.

- 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: 116
- 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/she-never-dwelt

## 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)