Lily Deng
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“I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage”
― The Pillars of the Earth
― The Pillars of the Earth
“Instead I wick the longing into thread, pass it through your needle eye, and sew it into hiding somewhere beneath my skin, embroider my next letter to you one stitch at a time.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“This is important: he sees me in a certain way, a way he will never deviate from. In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become.”
― Lie With Me
― Lie With Me
“Red rarely sleeps, but when she does, she lies still, eyes closed in the dark, and lets herself see lapis, taste iris petals and ice, hear a blue jay's shriek. She collects blues and keeps them.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“To read your letters is to gather flowers from within myself, pluck a blossom here, a fern there, arrange and rearrange them in ways to suit a sunny room.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
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