# Emma Newman

- Quotes: 43
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman

## Books

- [After Atlas](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/after-atlas.md) — 26 quotes
- [Planetfall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/planetfall.md) — 17 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> I’m still not even sure I believe that now. Sounds like the sort of bullshit my psych supervisor would say.

p. 253 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/after-atlas/im-still-not.md)

> Maybe one day I’ll be able to live somewhere with a garden. I’ll be old but skilled enough to still have some consultancy work to pay for the space to grow real food. Hands in the dirt again. Doing something real. No people around. Yeah, that’s the dream. Strange how the things we rail against and hate in our youth can be the things we crave as we get older.

p. 48 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/after-atlas/maybe-one-day.md)

> I made a mistake when I was young and didn’t know how the world worked and I have paid for it. Many, many times over.

p. 329 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/after-atlas/i-made-a-mistake.md)

> That’s the trouble with all these bloody lawyers. They build in the loopholes when they’re on the right gov-corp committees so they can exploit them later.

p. 47 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/after-atlas/thats-the-trouble-with.md)

> Don’t believe anything on the news feeds. It’s all just a circus for the masses.

p. 330 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/after-atlas/dont-believe-anything.md)

> “Do you still shout at people when they talk about their faith?”
>
> I shake my head. “I grew out of that. Now I mostly let them damn themselves with their own ignorance.”

p. 333 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/after-atlas/do-you-still.md)

> Journos are twisted sods.

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/after-atlas/journos-are-twisted.md)

> I’ve grown out of seeking emotional self-destruction. But even now the doubts are slithering in, making me question whether the hellish foundation my life is built on genuinely equates to coping.

p. 27 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/after-atlas/ive-grown-out.md)

> I know enough to never take journalists at their word.

p. 231 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/after-atlas/i-know-enough.md)

> If there’s anything I’ve learned in the years in this job, it’s that whatever you need is in the data. You just have to know which paths through it to follow and how to eliminate the extraneous without losing patterns.

p. 264 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/after-atlas/if-theres-anything.md)

> Her voice cracks and I fight the tug of memories trying to pull me back to that place where people thought he was the center of the universe. I feel a flash of hatred toward her for being so broken by the loss of him, for needing him so much when he was just a man who scooped up the human detritus from the edges of society and fooled them into thinking they were part of something special.

p. 108 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/after-atlas/her-voice-cracks.md)

> The data is always there. It’s just a matter of knowing where to look.

p. 260 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/after-atlas/the-data-is-always.md)