Jessica Johnson

“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

“Funny how we always think of knights as fighting dragons, when in fact they work for them.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“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

“They would make this war, she thinks, if there were not a war already made for them to make.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War