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“The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“There shall be a fire that knows your name, and in the presence of the strangling fruit, its dark flame shall acquire every part of you.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“That which dies shall still know life in death for all that decays is not forgotten and reanimated shall walk the world in a bliss of not-knowing …”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“The Greeks have three words for love. The first is philia, the kind of love that involves liking and grows up between two people who enjoy each other’s company very much. The second is agape, the selfless love of parents for children or between those who are like family to one another. The third is eros, which explains itself—connection, spark, the desire of the body to seek fulfillment in another.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros

“I figure dreams are like stray cats, which will go away if I quit feeding them.”
― Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

“To the quiet girls with stories in their heads.
To their dreams—and their nightmares.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“Language creates possibility. Sometimes by being used. Sometimes by being kept secret.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“Fear men, Luzia,” he said. “Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don’t fear magic or what you may do with it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“Pretending not to see would, she believes, take her past some point of no return, past the event horizon of hypocrisy into a black hole of solipsism.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts

“It seems like everyone has been built in a way that sometimes makes them do wrong and stupid things.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts

“no one has ever built them before in written history. (But much of history is unwritten. Remember this.)”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“This is what you must remember: the ending of one story is just the beginning of another. This has happened before, after all. People die. Old orders pass. New societies are born. When we say “the world has ended,” it’s usually a lie, because the planet is just fine. But this is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. For the last time.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“But then, how can they? Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined? That would not be human nature. How fortunate, then, that there are more people in this world than just humankind.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“When the reasoning mind is forced to confront the impossible again and again, it has no choice but to adapt.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“It’s clothing as contrition, a performance of beauty I have put on to pay penance to the people gathered to acknowledge me. They are here to see me, and I must apologize for requesting their attention, must make up for the weight of my demand by ensuring that looking at me will be a pleasant thing. Never mind the suffocation of the outfit, never mind the expense, never mind the impracticality. The transaction must be made: my efforts at beauty in exchange for their regard. And so, twice in my life, I have worn the cost of that recognition.”
― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

“Never apologize just because you think someone is mad at you,” he said. “Never let anyone make you say that you’re sorry just to appease them.” His eyes darted between mine, back and forth, faster than I could follow. “No one respects a coward, Evelyn. Never apologize. Do you understand?”
― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

“The way I see it, you mostly stop loving a person the same way you stop respecting them. It can happen all at once, if something enormous and terrible falls over the two of you. But for the most part, it happens by inches, in a thousand tiny moments of contempt that unravel the image you had of the person you thought you knew.”
― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

“I was forged in the bowels of this hard world. Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Death isn’t empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Most people don’t believe something can happen until it already has. That’s not stupidity or weakness, that’s just human nature.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“Language was always the companion of empire, and as such, together they begin, grow, and flourish. And later, together, they fall.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Recognizing problems is pointless when you have little motivation to fix them. And finding motivation is impossible when the mere idea of existing feels like a punishment.”
― Liann Zhang, Julie Chan Is Dead

“Social media is the biggest thief of time but it’s also an impossibly addictive form of escape.”
― Liann Zhang, Julie Chan Is Dead

“It’s easy to forget that genuine good can come from our interconnectedness. It’s there for people who need it. If you’re lucky, it can open up the world.”
― Liann Zhang, Julie Chan Is Dead