Phosgene (do not inhale)

“My mother told me we are all like roses. I always thought it means that we opened our petals, took our true form, and gradually withered. But perhaps we never stop growing. If women are flowers, we are not roses, but day's eyes - blooming not once, but over and over, each time the light touches us.”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night

“Lui continuava a dire: La materia non segue queste regole! Stai effettuando una partenogenesi ossea! Io gli dissi che sua mamma faceva la partenogenesi ossea. A. replicò che un giorno mi avrebbe ucciso.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“Solo Paul" ripeté Paul.
"Lollipaul" disse il principe cadavere dal fondo della cabina.
"Grazie per il contributo" fece Paul
"Rock-and-Paul" riprovò il principe cadavere
"No" disse Paul.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“So I go. I travel farther and faster and harder than most, and I read, and I write, and I love cities. To be alone in a crowd, apart and belonging, to have distance between what I see and what I am.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War