Lina

“My stomach churned and my eyes became wet. A dad coming to pick up his little princess and hugging her as if he had found gold. What a kind, sweet gesture, yet simple and free. A gesture I had never had.”
― Juliana Haygert, The Fire Heart Chronicles: The Complete Series

“Her work now, in addition to weighing, was to scrape out the compound from the girls’ dishes, often simply using her fingernails. As was to be expected, her bare hands became ‘luminous bright’, and as it was her habit to run them through her hair her whole head glowed fiercely. If anything, she often thought, when she peered at herself in a mirror in a dark bathroom, the new job got her even more covered in radium than the old one had.”
― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls

“I didn’t want romance. I only wanted a normal life.”
― Ellie Midwood, No Woman's Land

“Essentially, radium had masked itself as calcium and, fooled, the girls’ bodies had deposited it inside their bones. Radium was a silent stalker, hiding behind that mask, using its disguise to burrow deep into the women’s jaws and teeth.”
― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls