Alexandra Cook

“Once the question snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“The absence of a revealed truth produces a plurality of readings. Erasing the mundane and then leaving things alone opens the books.”
― Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art

“for a songbird was a terrible curse: unpredictable and angry and easy to harm.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Absolution

“Because so much ... decayed sprang to life decayed sprang to life. The eye, mislead, did not know what was truly and forever dead. The eye did not know where to focus, could not tell what might next be ressurected.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Absolution