Lilly Colemon

“     Illicit flight Alfa Bravo Charlie quickly reached a predetermined altitude and stopped dead. The passengers on board screamed the way people do on fairground rides. The shuttle hesitated momentarily and then shot forward accelerating rapidly to reach a blistering 145,222 miles per hour. They were in a Mach 22 situation. The cries from on-board could not be heard from the ground. Neither did anyone in the great metropolis of Llar witness the bright blue vapour trail the craft left behind in its wake. It was after all overcast and raining heavily.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

“Rose took my nose, I suppose,” he repeated; the bubble of phlegm in his throat made a disgusting crackle. “And it really blows.”
― James Dashner, The Scorch Trials

“The average army or army air forces Pacific POW had lost sixty-one pounds in captivity, a remarkable statistic given that roughly three-quarters of the men had weighed just 159 pounds or less upon enlistment.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

“My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live
for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I’ll forget that I stood before you and gave
this speech. But just because I’ll forget it some tomorrow doesn’t mean that I didn’t live every second
of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn’t mean that today didn’t matter.”
― Lisa Genova, Still Alice