Nick

“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“No matter what terror or loveliness the earth could produce—winds, seas—a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. there was nothing as complex in the world—no flower or stone—as a single hello from a human being.”
― Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories

“There she is, a human being, diving into the unknown, and she is wide awake.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“It was really the world that was one’s brutal mother, the one that nursed and neglected you, and your own mother was only your sibling in that world.”
― Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories