Quotes About Area X

Terroir's direct translation is 'a sense of place,' and what it means is the sum of the effects of a localized environment, inasmuch as they impact the qualities of a particular product. Yes, that can mean wine, but what if you applied these criteria to thinking about Area X?

Area X, before the ill-defined Event that locked it behind the border thirty years ago and made it subject to so many inexplicable occurrences, had been part of a wilderness that lay adjacent to a military base.

We knew that members of the second expedition to Area X had committed suicide by gunshot and members of the third had shot each other.

The photo had been taken by a member of the Séance & Science Brigade about a week or two before the Event that had created Area X. The photographer had gone missing when the border came down. It remained the only photo of Saul Evans they had, except for some shots from twenty years earlier, well before he'd come to the coast.

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.

He knew, too, that nukes were locked in on Area X from the nearest silos, military satellites keeping watch from above.

You couldn't martyr yourself to Area X, you could only disappear trying, and not even be sure of that.

The door might not have been created by whatever had created Area X.