“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.”
― The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
― The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
“Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“I have built a you within me, or you have. I wonder what of me there is in you.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone's hand and setting the very point to your heart.”
― The Bane Chronicles
― The Bane Chronicles
“Red wrote too much too fast. Her pen had a heart inside, and the nib was a wound in a vein. She stained the page with herself. She sometimes forgets what she wrote, save that it was true, and the writing hurt. But butterfly wings break when touched. Red knows her own weaknesses as well as anyone. She presses too hard, breaks what she would embrace, tears what she would touch to her teeth.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
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