Borne Jeff Vandermeer Quotes

We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means.

That's the problem with people who are not human. You can't tell how badly they're hurt, or how much they need your help, and until you ask, they don't always know how to tell you.

But, in the end, joy cannot fend off evil. Joy can only remind you why you fight.

The real reality is something we create every moment of every day, that realities spin off from our decisions in every second we've alive.

We were always finding each other and losing each other and finding each other again, and that was just the way of us.

Like most men, Wick could not help terror about one thing erupting as anger about something else.

But minds find ways to protect themselves, build fortifications, and some of those walls become traps.

Do you understand? Nothing thrives without being broken. Nothing exists without being dead first.

Am I a person or a weapon?" Always he wanted to know that he was a person. He just kept giving me different choices so one time I might slip up and say, "You're not a person." "You are a person. But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.

It was what my mother said sometimes-to be mindful that the universe beyond still existed, that we did not know what lived there, and it might be terrible to reconcile ourselves to knowing so little of it, but that didn't mean it stopped existing. There was something else beyond all of this, that would never know us or our struggles, never care, and that it would go on without us. My mother had found that idea comforting.