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“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

“Better a woman of divided loyalties than one of no loyalty at all. Better a reluctant traitor than the terror of a true sociopath.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant

“This is the truth. You will know because it hurts.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant

“I have a theory," Tain Hu said, "regarding your attention to birds."
"Oh?"
"It's the only tongue of your homeland that you can still hear spoken aloud.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant