“ I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no. Jeff Vandermeer
“ I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty. Jeff Vandermeer
“ At the end of their conversation, for no good reason, he told a joke. What’s brown and sticky? I know that one, the Voice said. A stick. A turd. Click. Jeff Vandermeer
“ I am walking forever on the path from the border to base camp. It is taking a long time, and I know it will take even longer to get back. There is no one with me. I am all by myself. The trees are not… Jeff Vandermeer
“ The idea that a dysfunctional thought could take root in a vacuum, the individual anonymous and wraithlike, unknowable because, especially at first, he or she had no interaction with other people. Bec… Jeff Vandermeer
“ I believed that it might be pulling these different impressions of itself from my mind and projecting them back at me, as a form of camouflage. To thwart the biologist in me, to frustrate the logic le… Jeff Vandermeer
“ Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead? Jeff Vandermeer
“ Even through the dulling effects of the pill, he wanted to be rid of his itching brain, his ignited skin, the flesh beneath, to in some way become so ethereal and Unbound to the earth that he could un… Jeff Vandermeer
“ Perhaps [he had] persevered for too long, in the face of too many obstacles, his hair proof of his tenacity - the stark black streaked with white or, in certain light, stark white shot through with bl… Jeff Vandermeer
“ 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. Jeff Vandermeer
“ Agency in fiction has to exist in the context of the worldview. Otherwise agency is not just meaningless or unconvincing, it is often laughable. Unfortunately, agency is often thoughtlessly given to c… Jeff Vandermeer
“ We live in a universe driven by chance,” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all want causality. Jeff Vandermeer
“ 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. Jeff Vandermeer
“ 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. Jeff Vandermeer
