So, like first thing, I made some toast, and it burned, as black as my soul, and I was so bummed that my tears of despair fell like cold bits of crystal, to be destroyed on the unforgiving rocks of this miserable life.
“Love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. Listen to me. I am your echo. I would rather break the world than lose you.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“I want to meet you in every place I have loved.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“At the end as at the start, and through all the in-betweens, I love you.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“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.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
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