Status Updates From Authority (Southern Reach #2)

“‘What should I do now?’ ‘I’m the prisoner,’ the biologist said to him from her cot, facing the wall. ‘Why should I tell you anything?’ ‘Because I’m trying to help you.’ ‘Are you? Or are you just trying to help yourself?’ He had no answer to that. ‘A normal person might give up…’ ‘Would you?’ he asked. ‘No. But I’m not normal.’”

"He wasn't sure he knew the difference anymore between what he was meant to find and what he'd dug up on his own. A tower could become a pit. Questioning a biologist could become a trap. An expedition member might even return thirty years later in the form of a voice whispering strange nothings in his ear."