Quotes from book
Annihilation

Name: Annihilation
Author: Jeff VanderMeer

Annihilation is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the first in a series of three books called the Southern Reach Trilogy. The book describes a team of four women who set out into an area known as Area X. The area is abandoned and cut off from the rest of civilization. They are the 12th expedition. The other expeditions have been fraught with disappearances, suicides, aggressive cancers, and mental trauma. The novel won the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award for best novel.A film based on the novel, starring Natalie Portman, was released by Paramount Pictures on February 23, 2018.

“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 book Annihilation

Source: Annihilation

“Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.”

Jeff VanderMeer book Annihilation

Source: Annihilation

“Silence creates its own violence.”

Jeff VanderMeer book Annihilation

Source: Annihilation

“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”

Jeff VanderMeer book Annihilation

Source: Annihilation