Lily Deng

“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.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“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

“Every time he looks over, it's like the sun peeking out from behind a cloud, and I do my best to feel content, to be just another person at the edge of his glow.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“I want to meet you in every place I have loved.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War