“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.”
― 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
“I love you and I love you and I love you, on battlefields, in shadows, in fading ink, on cold ice splashed with the blood of seals. In the rings of trees. In the wreckage of a planet crumbling to space. In bubbling water. In bee stings and dragonfly wings, in stars. In the deapths of lonely woods where I wandered in my youth, staring up - and even then you watched me. You slid back through my life, and I have known you since before I knew you.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me.
I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
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