“To be anything but kind in the face of male desire was dangerous. Nobody had to teach us this lesson—it was just something we knew from the earliest days on the playground.”
― We Ride Upon Sticks
― We Ride Upon Sticks
“At the end as at the start, and through all the in-betweens, I love you.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.”
― Strange the Dreamer
― Strange the Dreamer
“I love you and I love you and I love you, on battlefields, in shadows, in fading ink, on cold ice splashed with the blood of seals. In the rings of trees. In the wreckage of a planet crumbling to space. In bubbling water. In bee stings and dragonfly wings, in stars. In the deapths of lonely woods where I wandered in my youth, staring up - and even then you watched me. You slid back through my life, and I have known you since before I knew you.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
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