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“Will you respond, establishing complicity, continuing our self-destructive paper trail, just to get in the last word? Will you cut off, leaving my note to spin its fractal math inside you? I wonder which I’d rather.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

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“A desire to be apart, sometimes, to understand who I am without the rest. And what I return to, the me-ness that I know as pure, inescapable self . . . . is hunger. Desire. Longing, this longing to possess, to become, to break like a wave on a rock and reform, and break again, and wash away.”
― Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War

tags: desire, fluidity, hunger, identity, reform

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“I like you to know, with my words in your mouth, the places and ways in which I think of you. It feels good to be reciprocal; eat this part of me while I drive reeds into the depth of you, spill out something sweet.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

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“I feel—to speak of it would be to contain what it did to me, to make it small.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

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“There's a kind of time travel in letters, isn't there? I imagine you laughing at my small joke; I imagine you groaning; I imagine you throwing my words away. Do I have you still? Do I address empty air and the flies that will eat this carcass? You could leave me for five years, you could return never - and I have to write the rest of this not knowing.”
― Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War

tags: amal-el-mohtar

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