# Quote — Emily St John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

> What is time travel if not a security problem?

- 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: 86
- 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/what-is-time

## 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)