Jeff VanderMeer Quotes

Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world around you sparking inspiration.

Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart.

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.

Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time as if he didn't trust words anymore. Or had begun to cherish the answers silence gave him.

We live in a universe driven by chance, ” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all want causality.

...your antagonist is a hero in their own mind... p.192

Think about how backstory fits the tale you're trying to tell... p.195

Never do something for just one reason.

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?

He was Control, and he was in control.

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