Carlos Solano

“It was a testament, perhaps, to the lack of sexual education in Tikany that Rin didn’t learn about menstruation until that morning. Over the next fifteen minutes, the physician’s assistant explained in detail the changes going on in Rin’s body, pointing to various places on the diagram and making some very vivid gestures with her hands.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“except each three-foot-wide pair of wings carries a vicious face and two back feet sporting four-inch curved claws. Genetically engineered bat muttations.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“But this was going to happen every month. Every gods-damned month her uterus would tear itself to pieces, send flashes of rage through her entire body, and make her bloated, clumsy, light-headed, and worst of all, weak. No wonder women rarely remained at Sinegard.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“Each book’s as precious as a person, she says, as it preserves someone’s thoughts and feelings long after they’re gone.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping