Daniel Gallegos

“At the time, I was seeking oblivion, and I sought in those blank, anonymous faces, even the most painfully familiar, a kind of benign escape. A death that would not mean being dead.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“In our sleep, pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God. —Aeschylus”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

“The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“We were meant to be focused on our purpose, and “anything personal should be left behind.” Names belonged to where we had come from, not to who we were while embedded in Area X.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation