Quotes About Discovery

Think of Area X as a murderer we're trying to catch." "Oh great, that's just great, now we've got a detective on staff, too.

a glorified spade.

They found what some might call a preternatural silence.

We were meant to be focused on our purpose, and "anything personal should be left behind." Names belonged to where we had come from, not to who we were while embedded in Area X.

wanted—I needed—to know that I had indeed seen him, not some apparition conjured up by the Crawler, and I clutched at anything that would help me believe that. What convinced me the most wasn't the photograph—it was the sample the anthropologist had taken from the edge of the Crawler, the sample that had proven to be human brain tissue.

All of the things that wore you down, even as that was balanced by the electric feeling of being on the side of a border where you knew things no one else knew.

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.

Ci sarà un fuoco che conosce il tuo nome.

El pájaro fantasma acababa de hallar a su espectro, en una pila inexplicable de espectros varios

the Séance & Science Brigade

I hope to find Area X in Area X.

The biologist was coming down the hillside. In all her glory and monstrosity.

He had not expected any of it to be beautiful, but it was beautiful.

Wolno?? mog?a ci? oddali? od tego, czego szukasz, zamiast ci? do tego zbli?y?.

It is less than five hundred years since an entire half of the world was discovered. It is less than two hundred years since the discovery of the last continent. The sciences of chemistry and physics go back scarcely one century.

Jeff VanderMeer

We lack the analogies' was itself somehow deficient as a diagnosis, linguists burning up during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere after encountering Area X.

Whatever we think of the border, it's important to recognise it as a limitation of Area X.

They had their lives, and I had mine. I liked most of all pretending to be a biologist, and pretending often leads to becoming a reasonable facsimile of what you mimic, even if only from a distance

There are countless things in this vast universe that humankind does not know.

If I went rummaging through your carcass, would I find you?

What can you do when your five senses are not enough?

There are as many ways to discover your story as there are to trip over a dog in the kitchen--and some of them feel about as planned.

The therapist's job is to do everything in her power not just to promote self-understanding but to encourage experimentation.