Jesse Smith

“The only solution to the environment is neglect, which requires our collapse.” A sentence the biologist had excised from her thesis, but one that had burned bright in her mind, and now in Ghost Bird’s, where, even analyzed and kept at arm’s length like all received memories, it had a kind of power.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“And I am trying my best, too. Even if we don’t always know what that means or how it will play out. You can get caught up in something that’s beyond you, and never understand why.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“You don’t know what to say. You won’t know what to say for a long time. Your reply was so many years ago.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“He was walking toward the lighthouse along the trail, but the moon was hemorrhaging blood into its silver circle, and he knew that terrible things must have happened to Earth for the moon to be dying”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance