Jessamine

“So many needing so much to communicate what amounted to so little.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“And, if I'm honest, I can't shake the sense that he is still here, somewhere, even if utterly transformed - in the eye of a dolphin, in the touch of an uprising of moss, anywhere and everywhere.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“… the shadows of the abyss are like the petals of a monstrous flower that shall blossom within the skull and expand the mind beyond what any man can bear …”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“As I adjusted to the light, the Crawler kept changing at a lightning pace, as if to mock my ability to comprehend it. It was a figure within a series of refracted panes of glass. It was a series of layers in the shape of an archway. It was a great sluglike monster ringed by satellites of even odder creatures. It was a glistening star.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation