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From chapter 5: Dissolution "There was something about my mood and its dark glow that eclipsed sense, that made me see this creature, which had indeed been assigned a place in the taxonomy—catalogued, studied, and described—irreducible down to any of that. And if I kept looking, I knew that ultimately I would have to admit I knew less than nothing about myself as well, whether that was a lie or the truth."

— Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Page 175)

From chapter 4: Immersion "What did the thing coming after you look like?" A coughing fit, words dribbling out around the edges: "I never saw it. It was never there. Or I saw it too many times. It was inside me. Inside you. I was trying to get away. From what's inside me."

— Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Page 126)

From chapter 1: Initiation "I liked climbing. I also liked the ocean, and I found staring at it had a calming effect. The air was so clean, so fresh, while the world back beyond the border was what it had always been during the modern era: dirty, tired, imperfect, winding down, at war with itself. Back there, I had always felt as if my work amounted to a futile attempt to save us from who we are."

— Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Page 30)

Their beauty doesn't come from their goodness. You didn't ask if progress is good. And a person is not beautiful because they're good. They're beautiful because they're alive. Like a child. Alive and curious and restless.... And progress is like that.

— Orbital by Samantha Harvey, Sarah Naudi (Narrator) (36% - 37%)