Izzy Schaffner

“In the lab, so many of the scientists had said “forgive me” or “I am so sorry” before doing something irrevocable to the animals in their cages. Because they felt they had the right. Because the situation was extreme and the world was dying. So they had gone on doing the same things that had destroyed the world, to save it. Even a Strange Bird [...] could understand the problem with that logic.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

“For what could happen to her but that she should die, and she had already died so many times.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

“But by then, whenever this was, the Strange Bird did not want to live, or did not know she could live, and that was the same thing in the end.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

“What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go