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“And everyone is alive, somewhere in time.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“I miss them. all the dead. how young. how silly/ to miss what you will become. I apologize.”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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