# Quote — Emily St John Mandel, Station Eleven

> “They call themselves the light.”
>
> “What about it?”
>
> “If you are the light,” she said, “then your enemies are darkness, right?”
>
> “I suppose.”
>
> “If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. There’s nothing you can’t survive, because there’s nothing that you will not do.”

- Author: [Emily St John Mandel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel.md)
- Book: [Station Eleven](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel/station-eleven.md)
- Page: 139
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emily_St._John_Mandel#Station_Eleven_(2014)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel/station-eleven/they-call-themselves

## More from this book

> Frank standing on a stool on his wondrously functional pre-Libya legs, the bullet that would sever his spinal cord still twenty-five years away but already approaching: a woman giving birth to a child who will someday pull the trigger on a gun, a designer sketching the weapon or its precursor, a dictator making a decision that will spark in the fullness of time into the conflagration that Frank will go overseas to cover for Reuters, the pieces of a pattern drifting closer together.

p. 191 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel/station-eleven/frank-standing-on-a-stool.md)

> He found he was a man who repented almost everything, regrets crowding in around him like moths to a light. This was actually the main difference between twenty-one and fifty-one, he decided, the sheer volume of regret.

p. 327 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel/station-eleven/he-found-he-was.md)

> “Hell is other actors,” Kirsten said. “Also ex-boyfriends.”

p. 49 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-st-john-mandel/station-eleven/hell-is-other.md)