“I can't stand how much like my dreams you smell; it's torture. You are torture. You wear metal on your skin like you're made of it, and it bites at me every time you're around. No matter how many showers I take, I smell your scent on me, on this ship, while I'm trying to sleep. I don't understand it, and can't stand it. I can't stand how I want you so badly and don't at the same time, because you're what I've been looking for, and I don't know what it means to have found it.” LoveRomanceDesireAttraction Book:Ascension Source: Ascension
“Treatments worked well enough for us to get by. Most people lived into old age, but the medication, like everything else, has never been free. Life was a privilege, not a right, apparently. Something you had to struggle for when you were unlucky enough to be born at the intersection of poverty and bad genes.” PovertyPrivilegeIllnessDisability Book:Ascension Source: Ascension
“During times of need, it was always the people with the least to give who ended up sacrificing the most.” Poverty Book:Ascension Source: Ascension
“And there I was, a woman who yearned so hard for the sky there had to be stars in my blood, yet I was stuck in Heliodor City, missing it all.” StarsSkyScience Fiction Book:Ascension Source: Ascension