Emily

“Sometimes, too, other people gave you their light, and could seem to flicker, to be hardly visible at all, if no one took care of them. Because they’d given you too much and had nothing left for themselves.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“Would that not be the final humbling of the human condition? That the trees and birds, the fox and the rabbit, the wolf and the deer... reach a point at which they do not even notice us, as we are transformed.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.”
― Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way

“Some things you can be so close to that you never grasp their true nature.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance