Carra’s Reviews > This Is How You Lose the Time War > Status Update

"All good stories travel from the outside in."

"So I go. I travel farther and faster and harder than most, and I read, and I write, and I love cities. To be alone in a crowd, apart and belonging, to have distance between what I see and what I am."

"I dream of you. I keep more of you inside my mind, my physical, personal, squishy mind, than I keep of any other world or time. I dream myself a seed between your teeth, or a tree trapped by your reed. I dream of thorns and gardens, and I dream of tea."

"Hunger, Red—to sate a hunger or to stoke it, to feel hunger as a furnace, to trace its edges like teeth—is this a thing you, singly, know? Have you ever had a hunger that whetted itself on what you fed it, sharpened so keen and bright that it might split you open, break a new thing out? Sometimes I think that’s what I have instead of friends."

"Funny how we always think of knights as fighting dragons, when in fact they work for them."

"So I go. I travel further and faster and harder than most, and I read, and I write, and I love cities. To be alone in a crowd, apart and belonging, to have distance between what I see and what I am."

*sigh* I miss travel. I miss Prague, in particular, where I am always at my happiest.