“It all comes out in the wash. It's just the spin cycle that makes you crazy”

“Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.”

“You know you're a chemist when you expect your washing machine not just to have "spin" but to have "lock and shim" as well. And when your clothes don't come out clean you wonder if it's because you chose the wrong solvent from the menu or something, or maybe it ran out of N2. Or if the machine was tuned to "pants" rather than "socks" nucleus. And then you think "I'll submit it for service”

“It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)”

“Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.”

“Empire as located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged time of rise and fall, of beginning and end, of catastrophe.”