AdamatheGreat

“But by then, whenever this was, the Strange Bird did not want to live, or did not know she could live, and that was the same thing in the end.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

“For what could happen to her but that she should die, and she had already died so many times.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

“All things pass. None of us can manage to hold on to anything. In that way, we live our lives.”
― Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

“She liked the feeling of being winnowed down, as if there had been too much of her before, that anything unnecessary had been taken away and what was left was pure.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story