Pigment Quotes

“His control started to waver in round two with her witch's cauldron, a Black Forest gâteau that spilled out sinuous curls of smoke, teasing the taste buds with an elusive hint of... toffee? No, bourbon. Honey?
"Caramel brandy." Dominic severed the speculation of the other judges. He was correct. She had infused the dry ice mechanism with caramel brandy. Bending in a very limber motion for a man with those shoulders, he examined the exterior of the cauldron, breaking off a tiny piece with a satisfying snap. She'd meticulously assembled the structure from white chocolate that she'd hand-painted to mimic rusted iron, using a customized pigment of a powdered food coloring mixed with--
"The chocolate has a bitter aftertaste." Again, he cut short her explanation, rising to his feet. "Did you taste-test the pigment first?”
― Lucy Parker, Battle Royal

“Rapunzel raises her hands palms out and hooks her thumbs together. “I need you to keep an eye out for white seashells connected at the middle like this. They almost look like butterflies.”
“For… souvenirs?” he falters.
“For paint. The powdered shell makes an iridescent white pigment that mixes better than chalk powder, has higher opacity than zinc white, and doesn’t slowly poison you like lead white.”
“White paint is poisonous?”
“Lead paint,” Rapunzel says cheerfully. “Any color, it’ll all kill you.”
After a beat, Eugene says with perplexed affection, “You frighten me.”
― Margaret Owen, Rootbound: A Tangled Novel