“Red's letters she keeps in her own body, curled beneath her tongue like coins, printed in her fingers' tips, between the lines of her palms.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“She wears antique typewriter keys on her fingertips in veneration of the great god Hack,”
― This is How You Lose the Time War
― This is How You Lose the Time War
“Words are abstraction, break off from the green; words are patterns in the way fences and trenches are. Words hurt. I can hide in words so long as I scatter them through my body; 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
“So I go. I travel farther and faster and harder than most, and I read, and I write, and I love cities. To be alone in a crowd, apart and belonging, to have distance between what I see and what I am.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
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