“for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?”
― Annihilation
― Annihilation
“I hesitated for just a moment. Some part of me wanted to see the creature, after having heard it for so many days. Was it the remnants of the scientist in me, trying to regroup, trying to apply logic when all that mattered was survival? If so, it was a very small part. I ran.”
― Annihilation
― Annihilation
“You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.”
― Annihilation
― Annihilation
“Whenever I write first drafts, I like to maximize the possibility of f-ups, mistakes, mis-written words, digressions, crazy changes in tone, etc. This is why I don't use outlining software or even a computer and why I spread pages and images and research materials kinda crazy across the table. Never know what'll happen.”
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“In college, what had always stuck with him in Astronomy 101 was that the first astronomers to think of points of light not as part of a celestial tapestry revolving around the earth but as individual planets had had to wrench their imaginations--and thus their analogies and metaphors--out of a grooved track that had been running through everyone's minds for hundreds and hundreds of years.”
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Jessamine’s 2025 Year in Books
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Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Paranormal, Psychology, Romance, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, and Young-adult
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