Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

by Jeff Vandermeer

But Grayson welcomed the duck with the broken wing because it reminded her that even something broken could have a use. That nothing should be wasted. And that what might appear broken might in fact be whole.

Flesh was quantum. Flesh was contaminated, body and mind.

“No one should have to feel responsible for the entire world.”

Read once that salamanders can be poisoned by touch. How any oil or soap, any unnatural thing can hurt them. That you can hurt by touch. That you can hurt another living being just by existing in the world. Just by passing through the world. That is all. That is all.