Dead Astronauts Quotes

“You say why save an empty Earth? I can smell it on you, hear it in your voice. The way you can’t remember because how could you live. But it’s only empty to your eyes. It’s only empty because you helped make it so, and thought nothing of it.
There is no end to us. Only to you. You’ll never understand that. You’ll never understand that without us, you don’t exist. You wink out of existence. You become something else. Forever. And when I’m gone, what will remain? Everything.
Everything will remain.”
― Jeff VanderMeer

“As the storm washed over them and they huddled there not knowing their futures until it had passed and all was still.
None of them ready.
Thought they were in the middle.
Not the end.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts

“Moss the shape of Grayson, all around Grayson, covering Grayson like a second skin. Showing, kiss by kiss, the beauty of Grayson to Grayson, who had never thought herself beautiful. That she was beautiful. All of Moss kissing all of her and Grayson seeing herself through Moss’s eyes. Reborn in that moment.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts

“But, in the end, joy cannot fend off evil. Joy can only remind you why you fight.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts