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I am just the biologist; I don’t require any of this to have a deeper meaning. I am aware that all of this speculation is incomplete, inexact, inaccurate, useless. If I don’t have real answers, it is because we still don’t know what questions to ask. Our instruments are useless, our methodology broken, our motivations selfish.Jeff VanderMeer
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That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.Jeff VanderMeer
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It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side by side with our fear. A test of whether we preferred to be ignorant or unsafe.Jeff VanderMeer
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They’d never really been my friends; I didn’t cultivate friends, I had just inherited them from my husband.Jeff VanderMeer
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I didn’t answer her. All I could have said was I don’t know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of witness to our own ignorance or incompetence. Or both.Jeff VanderMeer
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I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life lived in those celestial tidal pools so far from us.Jeff VanderMeer
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Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?Jeff VanderMeer
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I believed that it might be pulling these different impressions of itself from my mind and projecting them back at me, as a form of camouflage. To thwart the biologist in me, to frustrate the logic left in me.Jeff VanderMeer
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I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.Jeff VanderMeer