SHUUGEKI FANART CENTRAL BY YOURS TRULY

'Press 'em? You mean like flowers or specimens?'

'They're not specimens, no. I mean, everybody eats 'em. You boys know that much, don't you?'

--Night on the Galactic Railroad, Kenji Miyazawa, translation by Roger Pulvers.

"What did you see?" I asked, to humor her.

A cough, accompanied by red spittle. "You were a flame," she said, and I had a brief vision of my brightness, made manifest. "You were a flame, scorching my gaze. A flame drifting across the salt flats, through the ruined village. A slow-burning flame, a will-o'-the-wisp, floating across the marsh and the dunes, floating and floating, like nothing human but something free and floating..."

--Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer