Madeline Litty

“I thought it was a person,' she said, ignoring my question. ‘I thought it was a person. I thought it was.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“I am convinced now that I and the rest of the expedition were given access to these records for the simple reason that, for certain kinds of classified information, it did not matter what we knew or didn’t know. There was only one logical conclusion: Experience told our superiors that few if any of us would be coming back.”
― Jeff VanderMeer

“dead, i have one thing that you do not. i never age. i curse you to wrinkles and strands of grey hair swept across the dome of your balding head. i curse you and i hate you and i will not leave you. because i love you.”
― Susan Scarf Merrell, Shirley

“As we descended into the tower, I felt again, for the first time in a long time, the flush of discovery I had experienced as a child. But I also kept waiting for the snap.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation