405 Quotes by Jeff VanderMeer

But I was not a domesticated animals...The dirt and grit of a city, the unending wakefulness of it, the crowdedness, the constant light obscuring the stars, the omnipresent gasoline fumes, the thousand ways it presaged our destruction... none of these things appealed to me.

But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

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 unsee, disavow, disavow

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

It's not being hurt that hurts,' Borne said.

The biologist was coming down the hillside. In all her glory and monstrosity.

Think of Area X as a murderer we’re trying to catch.”“Oh great, that’s just great, now we’ve got a detective on staff, too.

I think this is an asylum. But so is the rest of the world.

Someone was breathing. Behind him. Someone was breathing on his neck. The knowledge froze him, froze the cry of "Jesus fuck!" in his throat. He turned with an incredible slowness..