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Dead Astronauts

Jeff VanderMeer

Top 10 Best Quotes

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

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

“They killed us with traps. They killed us with poisons. They killed us with snares. They killed us with guns. They killed us with knives. They strangled us. They trampled us. They tore us apart with hounds. They baited steel-jawed traps. They starved us out. They burned us alive. They withheld water. They killed all our prey. They slit our throats. They filled in our burrows. They drowned us. They trampled us under horses’ hooves. They bred us for fur and bludgeoned us to death. They kept us in cages so small with so many we burst apart. They suffocated us with poison gas. They strangled us. They put us in sacks and beat us with clubs. They cut out our tongues so we bled to death. They skinned us alive. They detonated rock and stopped our hearts all unknowing. They swung us by our tails and smashed our skulls against stones. They murdered us in each and every year. They murdered us on each and every day.”

“What is too much to bear? Not being alive is too much to bear.”

“That tablecloth created by forced labor looks amazing on that table manufactured with formaldehyde in a sweatshop.”

“Because dead things felt only love for the universe.”

“Be still that human need. To fill the silence with words.”

“And a soul is just a delusion that lives in the body. No delusion survives death. Death is more honest than that.”

“A creator who no longer remembered the creation: Wasn’t that one definition of a god?”

“There was no moment like any other moment and yet each moment was the same.”

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Book Keywords:

brokenness, life, joy, challenges, trauma, burdens, death, evil, good, why-we-fight

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