Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation Quotes

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side by side with our fear. A test of whether we preferred to be ignorant or unsafe.

I didn’t answer her. All I could have said was I don’t know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of witness to our own ignorance or incompetence. Or both.

I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life lived in those celestial tidal pools so far from us.

Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.