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121 " I sought loneliness when I was young. You’ve seen me there: on my promontory, patient and unaware. But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me. I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together. "
― Amal El-Mohtar , This Is How You Lose the Time War
122 " Killing gets easier with practice, in mechanics and technique. Having killed never does. "
123 " just how layered and complex plain speech could be, how many secrets wrapped in the banner of Sincerity "
124 " I like you to know, with my words in your mouth, the places and ways in which I think of you. It feels good to be reciprocal; eat this part of me while I drive reeds into the depth of you, spill out something sweet. "
125 " If Blue were any less professional, she might have looked stunned. She might have chewed her lip. She might have walled up the inside of herself into a tomb and drowned it in a bog and set the bog on fire in her panic of what and when and how long. "
126 " The planet dies. Crickets chirp. Crickets survive, for now, among the crashed ships and broken bodies on this crumbling plain. Silver moss devours steel, and violet flowers choke the dead guns. If the planet lasted long enough, the vines that sprout from the corpses' mouths would grow berries. It won't, and neither will they. "
127 " Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another. Keep reading. Keep writing. Keep fighting. We’re all still here. More from the Authors The Mythic Dream "
128 " Ask the pilgrims how the labyrinth came to be, and they offer answers varied as their sins. "
129 " Red likes to feel. It is a fetish. Now she feels fear. And eagerness. "
130 " You wrote of being in a village upthread together, living as friends and neighbors do, and I could have swallowed this valley whole and still not have sated my hunger for the thought. "
131 " ...[T]hey are beautiful and composed, like a house where no one lives, but which a staff cleans daily. "
132 " I feel- to speak of it would be to contain what it did to me, to make it small. "
133 " She's kept her gloves clean, for the most part, but now she stains them red as a name. "
134 " Her quarry, whose quarry she is in turn, slips free, leaving now a sound, now a taste on the air, nothing so grand as a thread caught on a thorn. "
135 " I should tell you, as Mrs. Leavitt would, that it’s customary to send letters that can be opened without ruining the seal, "
136 " I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.Love,Red "
137 " Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another. Keep reading. Keep writing. Keep fighting. We’re all still here. "
138 " Dearest 0000FF, "
139 " I wanted to be seen.She sees her and breaks like a wave. "
140 " The sun set. The srars rose. (They are a rose, right? Or something? Dante said that.) "