Caroline

“Words are abstraction, break off from the green; words are patterns in the way fences and trenches are. Words hurt. I can hide in words so long as I scatter them through my body; to read your letters is to gather flowers from within myself, pluck a blossom here, a fern there, arrange and rearrange them in ways to suit a sunny room.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“This calls for rigor, Nav.’

‘Maybe rigor…mortis,’ said Gideon, who assumed that puns were funny automatically.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“But Uggi was shocked and told her that lady dragons, who are in any case rare, stay at home and guard the treasure. Now this is
an ancient dragon fallacy, since in fact the lady dragons are very much fiercer than any other, especially when they have a nest full of eggs. And, although this is always denied, lady dragons have been known to kill and cat other dragons and, what is worse, to take their treasures.”
― Naomi Mitchison, Travel Light