405 Quotes by Jeff VanderMeer

But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental.

There was no moment like any other moment and yet each moment was the same.

There were no reasons so mighty that they could override the desire to be in accord with the tides and the passage of seasons and the rhythms underlying everything around me.

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective – even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

I am sure of the here and now, this moment, and the next. I am sure of my past.” That was ghost bird’s castle keep, and it was inviolate.

Hadn’t the hummingbird been a kind of miracle? Hadn’t it diminished us not to see this as a miracle and protect it?

Observation had always meant more to me than interaction... My sole gift or talent, I believe now, was that places could impress themselves upon me, and I could become part of them with ease.

There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to re-live, certain kinds of connections that are so deep that when broken you feel the snap of the link inside you.

A bird can be a bat. A bat can be a piece of floating plastic bag. Way of the world. To see things as other things.