logo

Quotes About Enigma

Do you think Area X builds spaceships, too? Do you think Area X traverses interstellar space? Wormholes? Think of something more subtle, something peering through what we think of as reality.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Rachel, Rachel—what am I?" The strobe of colors felt like a smile or a flash of relief. "That's a tough one, Borne. I don't know what you are." "Am I a squirrel?" "I don't think so." "Am I a fish?" "Definitely not!" "Am I a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ fox?! Secretly raised as a common animal. But really a royal fox. Most royal of foxes. First among fox-kind." I
~ Jeff Vandermeer
the species that had given Area X its purpose was gone.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
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. My eyes kept glancing off of it as if an optic nerve was not enough
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It
~ Jeff Vandermeer
How many invisible, abstract incantations ruled the world beyond the Southern Reach?
~ Jeff Vandermeer
The door might not have been created by whatever had created Area X.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
There are countless things in this vast universe that humankind does not know.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
When you are too close to the center of a mystery there is no way to pull back and see the shape of it entire.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
She had stumbled across a ghost, and her touch had conjured the apparition.
~ Jeffrey Stepakoff
buns or shoe leathers. Riveting stuff. I can't imagine what the FTRS
~ Jen Calonita
There was a lingering sadness about her that Elsa could never put her finger on.
~ Jen Calonita
is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.
~ Jennifer Archer
The trouble with Ian Mackenzie's questions was that he asked the unanswerable. And yet she should know how to answer—everyone should. But they couldn't, because everyone simply knew. Everyone except Ian.
~ Jennifer Ashley
Symington hadn't been
~ Jennifer Ashley
Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so. They are like whodunits after you know who did it. Does anyone reread a murder mystery? Whereas the cosmos has been mysterious to humans since long before we knew anything about astronomy or space—and, now that we do, is only more so.
~ Jennifer Egan
I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain.
~ Jennifer Egan
Traps upon traps. And riddles upon riddles.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
if yes is no, and once is never then how many sides does a triangle have?
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
If yes is no and once is never then how many sides does a triangle have? - Jameson Hawthorne
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
~ It's her house.
Ik denk dat je mijn opa's laatste raadsel bent - een laatste puzzel om op te lossen.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
All great lives should have at least one grand mystery.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes