Acqua

“I’m invisible. You can’t harass a ghost.”
― Amelinda Bérubé, The Dark Beneath the Ice

“The story of the ugly duckling was never about the cygnet discovering he is lovely. It is not a story about realizing you have become beautiful.

It is about the sudden understanding that you are something other than what you thought you were, and that what you are is more beautiful than what you once thought you had to be.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja

“You can’t murder that which is eternal, that which will lie until death itself passes. But you can slow it, cripple it, hobble it.

You can hurt your nightmares; it’s a two-way street.”
― Cassandra Khaw, A Song for Quiet

“Phoenix Extravagant for destructive power, as befits an engine of war.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant