esther. ♡

“She saw or felt, deep within, the cataclysm like a rain of comets that had annihilated an entire biosphere remote from Earth. Witnessed how one made organism had fragmented and dispersed, each minute part undertaking a long and perilous passage through spaces between, black and formless, punctuated by sudden light as they came to rest,”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“she said not a word because to say anything—anything at all—would be to humiliate him, and she cared more about him than that. And it cost her nothing.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“Perhaps the lighthouse keeper had always been a delusion, a lie written by Area X and conveyed back to the biologist. Yet she distrusted, too, this avatar, this monster costume,”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“In the darkness of that which is golden, the fruit shall split open to reveal the revelation of the fatal softness in the earth.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance