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)

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

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