Troubletail

“But a male tree produces only small, well-behaved flowers—that is, if your definition of well behaved includes spewing plant sperm into the air for weeks on end.”
― Amy Stewart, Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

“First of all, simply clawing or breathing at somedragon once isn't real fighting. Small people usually use words for what we mean by that. They might say, oh, "Your mother copulated extramaritally with a black poodle, and from this union you were born." Dragons just attack, once, instead. It's just as expressive.”
― Bard Bloom, Mating Flight: A Non-Romance of Dragons

“Whether someone is useful only matters if you value people by their use.”
― Corinne Duyvis, On the Edge of Gone

“I realized it was a choice between being the perfect girl they expected and living a happy and productive life.”
― Kayla Bashe, Graveyard Sparrow