esther. ♡

“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

“The shock of going from being the center of attention to being out of it entirely—that still pulled at Saul at unexpected times. But there had been no drama to his collapsed ministry in the north, no shocking revelation, beyond the way he would be preaching one thing and thinking another, mistaking that conflict, for the longest time, as a manifestation of his guilt for sins both real and imagined. And one awful day he’d realized, betrayed by his passion, that he was becoming the message.”
― 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

“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