Annihilation Quotes

“unbelievably, even Charlie —had come from moments of privacy with red eyes. Piper had cried the most, and openly. But it wasn’t loss she saw on Cameron’s face now. It was something worse. “They let us go,” he said. “They almost killed us back at Little Cottonwood, but then they had their time to cool off, and now they’re just watching again. They won’t hurt us. No matter what we do, we’re free to be slaves.” “We don’t know that,” Andreus said. Cameron’s eyes went to the warlord then to Charlie before they settled on Piper. When he spoke, Piper”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“So now there really are little green men on the moon?” “These people weren’t official SETI. They didn’t understand the data at first. Turns out, they were hearing an echo. Something not from the moon, but bouncing off the moon.”
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“Lila sensed the cessation of motion more than she actually felt it. Being in the shuttle did something to her equilibrium — something about the sense of being high in the air in what looked like a bubble from the inside combined with a force that felt like an invisible seat belt. Her fear was making everything worse.”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“place where Raj knew he could find Astrals in the city — because when you meant to complain about one boss, you had to do it to the bigger boss.  Toward the single place Piper had decided they absolutely should not go.  “They won’t listen to you. You don’t know what they’re doing.”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“Raj, hang on. I need to—”  “Don’t try explaining anything to me. I understand just fine.” He stared at Piper for an elongated moment. Raj knew what he wanted; he knew who were his friends and foes; he knew exactly where he had to go and what he needed to know. About those things, Piper could only guess, but the minute they’d left the station courtyard he’d shouted directions to Jons that had steered them toward the big blue pyramid.”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“Take Daddy’s hand. And Clara, to Lila’s immense relief, merely walked alongside him without claiming his offer.”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“Meyer closed his eyes, obeying the summons. But this time, Divinity’s presence was further away, not as intimate.”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“Except that here he was, alive and well.  “There will be time to talk about that,” he said. “Later.”  “Say it.”  Instead of saying anything, he closed the remaining distance. Heather slid to the side, into the room, practically falling over a low table in her rush to shamble away.  Meyer calmly entered and closed the door behind him.  “Get away from me.”  “They got there in time, Heather.”  “There was no time. You were gone. Meyer was gone.” “People can be revived. You know they can.”  “Not you.”  He spread his arms slightly, giving her an almost humorous expression. And yet here I am. “A shuttle picked me up. They’re aliens, Heather. When we were in Vail, they picked me up in a beam of light. They read the population’s minds. They crossed time and space. Why is it so hard to believe they can fix a bullet wound?”  “Show me.” She nodded at his chest. “There’s no scar, if that’s what you’re asking.” He gave a tight-lipped, shrugging sort of smile. “Alien technology.”  “I don’t believe it.”  “I don’t know why. Come on, Heather.” His voice had slightly changed. Now he wasn’t quite”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“watched”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

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“either, though there was that. Mostly, he needed someone to hurt, and this group of five was all he had. Because about that, Cameron was right: There had been no Astrals since they’d left Cottonwood. Their absence had seemed lucky. But now, looking at Cameron, Andreus had to admit he’d always seen it as convenient as well. “We stop whining,” Andreus said, “and we start finding solutions.” “Just walk up there,”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“after us … or maybe they’d put their safeties back on, and we’d get to watch a bunch of smiling Titans following like drones? They could get on tiny motorcycles then follow the RV. That’d be funny, wouldn’t it? They’d look like those famous fat twins on their bikes. Alien comedy at its best.” Now Andreus looked angry. He’d been wearing a damp rag on his head since they’d left the RV in one of the few places with overhead cover a few miles back. Piper kept wanting to make babushka jokes, but she couldn’t quite manage. The man”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“wincing, as a scree of loose stone fell to the ground with a clatter. She thought Cameron might stand. Instead, he sat on the rock as if watching a sunset, in full view of the mothership. Piper finally found her voice. She reached up and took his wrist, tugging. But really, what did she think she would do? Drag him off, give him a concussion against the hot, baked ground? “It’s going to see us.” “It can already see us.” Jeanine piped up. “We haven’t seen any shuttles since leaving”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“Piper thought a fight might erupt, but Cameron only shook his head, looking at the dust, clearly sad. They’d all shed their tears in the three days it had taken to find a way back here —on foot, then right out in the goddamned open in the solar RV that the Astrals had conveniently left behind. Cameron —and unbelievably, even Charlie —had come from moments of privacy with red eyes. Piper had cried the most, and openly. But it wasn’t loss she saw on Cameron’s”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“Christopher,” he said, less authoritatively than Chris had come to expect from the big man, who was usually shouting. He beckoned with a frying pan-sized hand. “Get over here. I don’t know that I’ve ever been more glad to see someone in my life, except my family or my god.”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“Trevor was my son. My son! MY SON! Meyer’s fist had begun to heal, but as he let the rage fill and become him, he opened it again, and again, and again.”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“it record now then zip off and play it for its owners in person? What were the odds that the Astrals had an entirely different means of surveillance —one so different as to be unreal —and had only loosed it now? Piper wasn’t buying it. But there was more to it. More reason to disbelieve that the shadow had ratted them out. “I don’t think it’s against us,” Piper”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“Which Meyer?”  Piper chuckled. “Meyer Meyer. Charlie just calls the other one Anomaly.”  “Catchy name.”  “Mmm.”  “Clara says he wants his own name. Because he’s not really my dad, even though he has all his memories. He’s … something else.”  “What name?”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“The ship lowered.  But whatever the healthy-seeming Meyer didn’t know or couldn’t see about the Astral collective, it didn’t extend to the details of connecting their shuttle to a pit in the ground, beneath the stone arch.”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“Groupthink. It’s called groupthink. And there is no need for a surrogate when we talk one to the other.”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“Disrupt’ is different from ‘destroy,’” Coffey said.”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“wasn’t even much of a lie, despite her atheism. Because really, what wasn’t better than Heaven’s Veil?  But Clara wouldn’t listen. Didn’t get it. She kept saying that they could just follow Grandpa — a request that made Lila visibly pale and Raj uncomfortable. The girl kept saying that she really wanted to find him, especially if he was on his way to somewhere idyllic. And, because she was Clara, she used that word, too: idyllic. A freaky child prodigy who spoke like a college student but still didn’t understand death. It was like a cartoon evil genius who happens to”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation

“Humans thought that the world occurred and observation followed, despite their scientists demonstrating otherwise.”
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“Familiarity had bred atrophy.”
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“I don’t want to live in a world where a girl can’t trust shadow monsters,”
― Sean Platt, Annihilation