The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance

… the shadows of the abyss are like the petals of a monstrous flower that shall blossom within the skull and expand the mind beyond what any man can bear …

That which dies shall still know life in death for all that decays is not forgotten and reanimated shall walk the world in a bliss of not-knowing …

We all live in a kind of continuous dream,” I told him. “When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we’ve taken as reality.”

; some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough

There shall be a fire that knows your name

The trees are not trees the birds are not birds and I am not me but just something that has been walking for a very long time…”

There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to relive, certain kinds of connections so deep that when they are broken you feel the snap of the link inside you

when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you

That which dies shall still know life in death for all that decays is not forgotten and reanimated shall walk the world in a bliss of not-knowing …

the seeds of the dead to share with the worms that gather in the darkness and surround the world with the power of their lives …