Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)

by Jeff VanderMeer

“Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead to share with the worms that…”

But soon enough I banished this nonsense; some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

“We all live in a kind of continuous dream,” I told him. “When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we’ve taken as reality.”