Lily Deng

“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

“I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage”
― Ken Follet, The Pillars of the Earth

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

“If the mortal sin of the suicide is greed, to hoard stillness and calm for yourself while dispersing your riotous internal pain among all those who survive you, then the mortal sin of the martyr must be pride, the vanity, the hubris to believe not only that your death could mean more than your living, but that your death could mean more than death itself-which, because it is inevitable, means nothing”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!