“ They’d never really been my friends; I didn’t cultivate friends, I had just inherited them from my husband. Jeff Vandermeer
“ Early on, I had thought Wick was reaching for a body across the bed. But, for a long time, he had been reaching for me--for the person called Rachel, who did indeed, in the end, love back the person n… Jeff Vandermeer
“ 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. Jeff Vandermeer
“ The Thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the React… Jeff Vandermeer
“ That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality. Jeff Vandermeer
“ Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart. Jeff Vandermeer
“ My Manager forced me to put my beetle in my own ear, a clear waste and an act that gave me nightmares: of a burning city through which giant carnivorous lizards prowled, eating survivors off of balcon… Jeff Vandermeer
“ I am just the biologist; I don’t require any of this to have a deeper meaning. I am aware that all of this speculation is incomplete, inexact, inaccurate, useless. If I don’t have real answers, it is… Jeff Vandermeer