Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)

by Jeff Vandermeer

You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.

Feed Area X but do not antagonize it, and perhaps someone will, through luck or mere repetition, hit upon some explanation, some solution, before the world becomes Area X.

My free will was compromised, if only by the severe temptation of the unknown.

I had gotten sidetracked, like I always did, because I melted into my surroundings, could not remain separate from, apart from, objectivity a foreign land to me.

What occurs after revelation and paralysis? Either death or a slow and certain thawing.