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This Is How You Lose the Time War QUOTES

This Is How You Lose the Time War QUOTES

1 " At the end as at the start, and through all the in-betweens, I love you. "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War

2 " Red knows her own weaknesses as well as anyone. She presses too hard, breaks what she would embrace, tears what she would touch to her teeth. "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War

3 " There’s a kind of time travel in letters, isn’t there? I imagine you laughing at my small joke; I imagine you groaning; I imagine you throwing my words away. Do I have you still? Do I address empty air and the flies that will eat this carcass? You could leave me for five years, you could return never—and I have to write the rest of this not knowing. "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War

4 " Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives. "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War

5 " I want to meet you in every place that I've loved "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War

6 " I don’t give a shit who wins this war, Garden or the Agency – towards whose Shift the arc of the universe bends.
But maybe this is how we win, Red.
You and me.
This is how we win. "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War

7 " But I am the songbird running out of air, and I must breathe. "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War

8 " You must dwell, says Garden, within time to shift it in lasting ways; play a slow game, but win. "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War

9 " Atlantis sinks. Serves it right. "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War

10 " A desire to be apart, sometimes, to understand who I am without the rest. And what I return to, the me-ness that I know as pure, inescapable self . . . . is hunger. Desire. Longing, this longing to possess, to become, to break like a wave on a rock and reform, and break again, and wash away. "

― Max Gladstone , This Is How You Lose the Time War

11 " A fugitive becomes a queen or a scientist or, worse, a poet. "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War

12 " Hunger, Red—to sate a hunger or to stoke it, to feel hunger as a furnace, to trace its edges like teeth—is this a thing you, singly, know? Have you ever had a hunger that whetted itself on what you fed it, sharpened so keen and bright that it might split you open, break a new thing out? Sometimes I think that’s what I have instead of friends. "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War

13 " I ramble, it seems, when writing to the darkness by hand. How embarrassing. I’m quite certain I’ve never rambled a day in my life before this. Another thing to give you: this first, for me. "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War

14 " I write to you in stings, Red, but this is me, the truth of me, as I do: broken open by the act, in the palm of your hand, dying. "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War

15 " One person may wear different faces in different rooms. Minds swap bodies for sport. "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War

16 " This feels like being cut off, again, in the strangest way - feels like teetering on the brink of something that will unmake me. "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War

17 " I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you. "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War

18 " Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another. "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War

19 " I want to be a body for you. I want to chase you, find you, I want to be eluded and teased and adored; I want to be defeated and victorious—I want you to cut me, sharpen me. I want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand. Flowers grow far away on a planet they’ll call Cephalus, and these flowers bloom once a century, when the living star and its black-hole binary enter conjunction.I want to fix you a bouquet of them, gathered across eight hundred thousand years, so you can draw our whole engagement in a single breath, all the ages we’ve shaped together. "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War

20 " I want to meet you in every place I have loved. "

― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War