Lily Deng

“I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage”
― Ken Follet, 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.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, 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.”
― Philippe Besson, 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.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War