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Sam Atkis
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“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
“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
“I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. Listen to me. I am your echo. I would rather break the world than lose you.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“I have observed friendships as one observes high holy days: breathtakingly short, whirlwinds of intimate behavior, frenzied carousing, the sharing of food, of wine, of honey. Compressed, always, and gone as soon as they come.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“Even poetry, which breaks language into meaning - poetry ossifies, in time, the way trees do. What’s supple, whipping, soft and fresh grows hard, grows armor. If I could touch you, put my finger into your temple and sink you into me the way Garden does - perhaps then. But I would never.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
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