Ari

“She cannot stop herself from reaching out, from trying with a touch to say, I'm here. Sometimes you have to hold a person, though they'll mistake embrace for strangulation.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“It occurs to me to dwell on what a microcosm we are of the war as a whole, you and I. An action and an equal and opposite reaction. My viney-hivey elfworld, as you say, versus your techy-mechy dystopia. We both know it’s nothing so simple, any more than a letter’s reply is its opposite. But which egg preceded what platypus? The ends don’t always resemble our means.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“But I am the songbird running out of air, and I must breathe.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree