Acceptance Quotes
"Some things came to you late, but late was better than never."
"A person was a moving beacon. But people still emanated light in their way, still shone across the miles as a warning, an invitation, or even just a static signal."
"You can’t leave those Brigaders alone, can you? Bunch of crackpots. You, too."
"They were not lost as you were lost that day; they had no cottage by the sea to return to, no mother pacing on the deck, worried out of her mind, grateful for your sudden grimy, soaked appearance."
"No one’s over there. Just on the island. What we’re looking for isn’t there."
"You shouldn’t be here. You need to get off the rocks. The tide’s coming in."
"The truth is, you told Whitby to act like a detective, in an attempt to 'think outside the Southern Reach.'"
"An idea in one of my father’s sermons. The best he ever gave."
"I’m not sure. I won’t know what to say for a long time. Your reply was so many years ago."
"Armadillos ruining the garden, but don’t really want to put out poison."
"Freedom could take you farther from what you sought, not closer."
"Because I’m alive. Because I’m walking through wilderness on a beautiful day."
"The operational damage from an event can linger in the mind like a ghost."
"Is there something in the corner of your eye that you cannot get out?"
"We think in terms of machines, not animals. The enemy doesn’t acknowledge machines."
"Natural places are no different than human cities. The old exists next to the new."
"I’m beyond my skill set out here. I’m totally fucked."
"How does It renew Itself if not through our actions? Our lives?"
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"There's nothing to this world but what our senses tell us about it, and all I can do is the best I can based on that information."
"A kind of giddy recklessness was coming back to me again—and I welcomed it."
"Not with that much distortion of time. Not with the things the biologist saw."
"I have seen strange stars in the sky at night, too. I have seen the rifts in the sky."
"I'm a kind of gift, Saul. Because I understand. I know what's going on."
"You know, just as I know. Even if no one else believes."
"We must trust our thoughts while we sleep. We must trust our hunches."
"We must begin to examine all of those things that we think of as irrational simply because we do not understand them."
"In other words, we must distrust the rational, the logical, the sane, in an attempt to reach for something higher, for something more worthy."
"What you call the Crawler—we have to try. We have to go back down into the tower and find some way to neutralize it."
"Control, there’s no reset. There’s never going to be a reset. That’s a suicide mission."
"The only solution to the environment is neglect, which requires our collapse."
"If you don’t know your passion, it confuses your mind, not your heart."
"Sometimes you need to know when to go on to the next thing—for the sake of other people."
"It’s a fallacy for you, a total stranger, to project onto me the motives and emotions you think are appropriate. To think you can get inside my head."
"There was a mesmerizing quality to that movement, distant cousin to the director’s hypnotism, and she didn’t dare let her gaze linger for long."
"Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead."
"What function these entities performed, whether they were part of the Crawler’s anatomy or a symbiotic species, she could not fathom."
"Perhaps the lighthouse keeper had always been a delusion, a lie written by Area X and conveyed back to the biologist."
"Ghost Bird said to Control, so still and silent behind her, absorbing or being absorbed."
"A strange thing to kill yourself. I thought maybe it was a kind of wraith."
"You’re on your own, like you’ve always been on your own."
"And God said it was good. And God said, "Don’t fight it." Except that all he wanted to do was fight it."
"It was just an ordinary day. Another ordinary summer day."