Runt

“Everything added to her and everything taken away had led to that moment and from her perch she had radiated love for every animal she could not help, with nothing left over for any human being.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

“Have we been compromised by our own data? The answer is: Of course.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Authority

“You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“That’s when you rise, finally. You rise out of the mud, in the rain, and you go back inside and suddenly everything gets really cold and calm. The answer doesn’t lie in your backyard because no one is going to come and save you even if you beg them to. Especially if you beg them to. You’re on your own, like you’ve always been on your own. You have to keep going forward, until you can’t go forward anymore.
You have to hang on. You’re almost there. You can make it to the end.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance