This whole place is death. No, that’s unfair—this place isn’t death, this place is indifference. This place… — Emily St John Mandel
This whole place is death. No, that’s unfair—this place isn’t death, this place is indifference. This place is utterly neutral on the question of whether he lives or dies; it doesn’t care about his last name or where he went to school; it hasn’t even noticed him.
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