Quotes from Jeff Vandermeer

Una piscina. Una bahía rocosa. Una parcela vacía. Un faro. Una torre. Estas cosas son reales y no lo son. Existen y no existen.

But I am not those people. I am just the biologist; I don't require any of this to have a deeper meaning.

There had even been an informal group – the Séance & Science Brigade – dedicated to applying 'empirical reality to paranormal phenomenon.' … It was the S&SB that had in effect named Area X, identifying that coast as 'of particular interest' and calling it 'Active Site X' – a name prominent on their science-inspired tarot cards.

The Séance & Science Brigade, which had operated along that coast since the fifties, had been obsessed with the twin lighthouses.

He sat up abruptly in bed, stifled another cough. Someone was in his lighthouse. More than one person. Whispering. Or maybe even shouting, the sound by the time it infiltrated the brick and stone, the wood and steel, brought to him through a distance, a time, that he couldn't know. The irrational thought that he was hearing the ghosts of dozens of lighthouse keepers all at once, in a kind of threnody, the condensed chorus of a century. Another phantom sound?

The storm comes on and you toss your cigar, stand there thinking about the invisible border and all the ceaseless hypotheses that amount to some psychotic religion Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and you drink your wine, hell, get the whole bottle, and it's still not doing it, and you still don't want to go inside to face Ã¢â'¬Â¦ anything.

But how is that different from any other godforsaken stretch of coast half off the grid?" There were still dozens of them all across the country. Places that were poison to real-estate agents, with little infrastructure and a long history of distrust of the government.

That which dies shall still know life in death for all that decays is not forgotten and reanimated it shall walk the world in the bliss of not-knowing. And then there shall be a fire that knows the naming of you, and in the presence of the strangling fruit, its dark flame shall acquire every part of you that remains.

As much as possible, allow yourself to be a raw nerve end that internalizes whatever is experienced in life.

Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead to share with the worms that Ã¢â'¬Â¦

If the world is a just place, that mark

Great are the rewards of an industrious, affluent and quiet life, but even greater is the attraction of the abyss.

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.

Thieves slept the sleep of the just, their fingers still in someone else's till.

I became a wrestler because I loved a certain kind of aggression born, in part, of joy.

It creates out our ecosystem a new world, whose processes and aims are utterly alien--one that works through supreme acts of mirroring, and by remaining hidden in so many ways, all without surrendering the foundations of its otherness as it becomes what it encounters.

there is a kind of connectedness between the seemingly random questions of very small kids.

Per il momento voglio crederti. Voglio crederti perché in realtà non ho scelta. Non ho una teoria migliore.

very least, we had become a failed state. Was the world a failed state, too?

that was the time calculated by the barber who based his estimate on the length of his customers' stubble.

fighting the same savage battles with the giant rabbits for each other's carrion

E' così che la follia del mondo prova a impossessarti di te: penetrando dall'esterno, costringendoti a vivere nella sua realtà.

Ci sarà un fuoco che conosce il tuo nome.

He would study any number of topics and had no real preferences, his many eyes enthusiastically moving back and forth as he read the pages at a steady clip. I don't believe he needed light, or eyes, to read, but I know he liked to mimic what he saw me doing. Perhaps he even thought it was polite to seem to need light, to seem to need eyes.