This Is How You Lose the Time War

by Amal El-Mohtar

Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.

All good stories travel from the outside in.

I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.

want to meet you in every place I ever loved.

would rather break the world than lose you.

Sometimes you have to hold a person, though they’ll mistake embrace for strangulation.

Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another. Keep reading. Keep writing. Keep fighting. We’re all still here.