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101 " You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why. "
― Jeff VanderMeer , Acceptance
102 " [W]hen you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you. "
― Jeff VanderMeer , Annihilation
103 " We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means. "
― Jeff VanderMeer , Borne (Borne, #1)
104 " You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you. "
105 " We were neither what we had been nor what we would become once we reached our destination. "
106 " What can you do when your five senses are not enough? "
107 " When you are too close to the center of a mystery there is no way to pull back and see the shape of it entire. "
108 " That's the problem with people who are not human. You can't tell how badly they're hurt, or how much they need your help, and until you ask, they don't always know how to tell you. "
109 " At the time, I was seeking oblivion, and I sought in those blank, anonymous faces, even the most painfully familiar, a kind of benign escape. A death that would not mean being dead. "
110 " I loved him, but I didn’t need him, and I thought that was the way it was supposed to be. "
111 " I leaned in closer, like a fool, like someone who had not had months of survival training or ever studied biology. Someone tricked into thinking that words should be read. "
112 " Bodies could be beacons, too, Saul knew. A lighthouse was a fixed beacon for a fixed purpose; a person was a moving one. But people still emanated light in their way, still shone across the miles as a warning, an invitation, or even just a static signal. People opened up so they became a brightness, or they went dark. They turned their light inward sometimes, so you couldn’t see it, because they had no other choice. "
113 " This part I will do alone, leaving you behind. Don’t follow. I’m well beyond you now, and traveling very fast. "
114 " Perhaps so many journals had piled up in the lighthouse because on some level most came, in time, to recognize the futility of language. Not just in Area X but against the rightness of the lived-in moment, the instant of touch, of connection for which words were such a sorrowful disappointment, so inadequate an expression of both the finite and the infinite. "
115 " for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible? "
116 " Sometimes, too, other people gave you their light, and could seem to flicker, to be hardly visible at all, if no one took care of them. Because they’d given you too much and had nothing left for themselves. "
117 " Natural places are no different than human cities. The old exists next to the new. Invasive species integrate with or push out native species. The landscape you see around you is the same as seeing an old cathedral next to a skyscraper. "
118 " The real reality is something we create every moment of every day, that realities spin off from our decisions in every second we've alive. "
119 " So long as you don't tell people you don't know something, they'll probably think you know it. "
― Jeff VanderMeer , Authority
120 " If you don't know your passion, it confuses your mind, not your heart. "