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“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.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“She sometimes forgets what she wrote, save that it was true, and the writing hurt.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories

“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.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“At the end as at the start, and through all the in-betweens, I love you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Tell me something true, or tell me nothing at all.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Sometimes when you write, you say things I stopped myself from saying.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“She wants there to be a God, so she can curse Her.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War