“Like your victory, love spreads back through time. It claims our earliest association, our battles and losses. Assassinations become assignations.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“I think to myself, It is terrifying to be visible, and then I think, I have been waiting all my life to be seen.”
― The Thirty Names of Night
― The Thirty Names of Night
“Perhaps he has the Kind One speak it for him first, before he tries it out on his own; smiling over the syllables, the sound like a sweet on his tongue, rhyming with the word of his soul; a discovery of not only his new name, but a guiding philosophy on life.
That this is how everyone should be named: a hand, thrown into a bag of words, in search of that singular and fitting shape.”
― The Vanished Birds
That this is how everyone should be named: a hand, thrown into a bag of words, in search of that singular and fitting shape.”
― The Vanished Birds
“Maybe it's true that we become what we love most, that we exalt the nameless by losing ourselves in it.”
― The Thirty Names of Night
― The Thirty Names of Night
“This is a love story to its blade-dented bone.”
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
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