Marisa

“I wanted to say, words hurt, but metaphors go between, like bridges, and words are like stone to build bridges, hewn from the earth in agony but making a new thing, a shared thing, a thing that is more than one Shift.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This is How You Lose the Time War

“I am seventy-five years old, Roman,” she began. “I’ve seen endless things throughout my life, and I can tell you right now that this world is about to change. The days to come will only grow darker. And when you find something good? You hold on to it. You don’t waste time worrying about things that won’t even matter in the end. Rather, you take a risk for that light. Do you understand what I’m telling you?” He nodded, although his heart was racing.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“I love you. I love you. I love you. I’ll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You’ll never see, but you will know. I’ll be all the poets, I’ll kill them all and take each one’s place in turn, and every time love’s written in all the strands it will be to you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Don’t be so quick to throw away your humanity, Oraya,” he said. “You might find you miss it once it’s gone.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night