CocoaCatnip

“All the things I’ve done,” Adam said. “What if you hate me for them?” “Try me,” Oliver responded without hesitation. “Tell me everything you think is unforgivable and let me show you that none of it matters.”
― Toni Duarte, Virulence: Book Two of the Bioluminescence Trilogy

“And I know that you’ve been dealt shitty hand after shitty hand, but you’re still here trying to be better.”
― Toni Duarte, Virulence: Book Two of the Bioluminescence Trilogy

“Under the light of a moon curved like the back of a silver spoon, the garden looks like a thing from a fairy tale. Fireflies glow like pixie dust and the thrumming hum of a thousand cicadas and frogs sweetens to a cadence that feels like a song. Flowers turn to opal stones in the shadows and fungi lines garden walls like bioluminescent plates. His fingers brush them as he passes and come away powdered in spores, and he has an odd urge to lick them.”
― C.G. Drews, Hazelthorn

“Georgie frowned. “Are you sure she was infected?” “Of course, I’m sure. I don’t think mushroom eyes are a common occurrence.”
― Toni Duarte, Virulence: Book Two of the Bioluminescence Trilogy