“
Wartime lipstick is necessarily cobbled together from whatever tailings and gristle were left over once all the good stuff was use to grease propeller shafts. A florid and cloying scent is needed to conceal its unspeakable mineral and animal origins.
It is the smell of War.
”
― Cryptonomicon
― Cryptonomicon
“
And she kisses him with a hunger, using her tongue, and he closes his eyes and sees only the brilliance of pure blinding light.
”
― The Angel and the Apothecary
― The Angel and the Apothecary
