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Shriek: An Afterword (Ambergris, #2) QUOTES

Shriek: An Afterword (Ambergris, #2) QUOTES

1 " you look you see only bitterness or despair. If all of these conditions and situations apply to you, I recommend a refreshing suicide attempt. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Shriek: An Afterword (Ambergris, #2)

2 " {Everyone always tells you that you become more alone as you get older. People write about it in books. They shout it out on street corners. They mumble it in their sleep. But it’s always a shock when it happens to you.} "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Shriek: An Afterword (Ambergris, #2)

3 " is nothing more liberating than playing an illogical game where only you understand all of the rules. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Shriek: An Afterword (Ambergris, #2)

4 " What strange creatures we are, I thought as I stood there. We live, we love, we die with such random joy and grief, excitement and boredom, each mind as individual as a fingerprint, and just as enigmatic. We make up stories to understand ourselves and tell ourselves that they are true, when in fact they only represent an individual impression of one individual fingerprint, no matter how universal we attempt to make them. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Shriek: An Afterword (Ambergris, #2)

5 " But when you’ve lived in a place this long, no walk can occur solely in the present. Every street, every building, appears to you encrusted with memories, with perspectives that betray your age, your cynicism, your sentimentality, or your lack of feeling where you should feel something. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Shriek: An Afterword (Ambergris, #2)

6 " Writing a book and going underground are so similar. That fear of the unknown never really goes away. But, after a while, it becomes a perverse comfort "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Shriek: An Afterword (Ambergris, #2)

7 " If the world is a just place, that mark "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Shriek: An Afterword (Ambergris, #2)

8 " Maybe all of this was prevarication and excuses and not an afterword at all. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Shriek: An Afterword (Ambergris, #2)

9 " into the path of a motored vehicle on the same day Janice seems to have finished her account. Supposedly, a wooden foot was found near the scene, but the body was too badly mangled to be identifiable. "

― Jeff VanderMeer , Shriek: An Afterword (Ambergris, #2)