Jessica Johnson

“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

“He laughed, and I caught my breath at the sound. I wished I was funny, just to hear him laugh again.”
― C.L. Polk, Witchmark

“I don't mean to make you mad, I just keep doing it by accident.”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Talking to Dragons

“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