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

“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.
(…)
“I love you. I love you. I love you. I’ll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You’ll never see, but you will know. I’ll be all the poets, I’ll kill them all and take each one’s place in turn, and every time love’s written in all the strands it will be to you.”

“I want to meet you in every place I have loved.”

“But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me.
I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.”

oh

“I veer rhapsodic; my prose purples.”

bitch?? as if your prose isn’t already purple like?? this whole book is literally just 💜☯️🔮☂️👿💟🧞‍♀️🍇💁🏻‍♀️👾🟪☔️🧕🟣🚺🤰🙋🏻‍♀️♓️🍆🦄🌂🤷🏻‍♀️🦹🏻‍♂️👩‍🎤

well that escalated quickly… 😶‍🌫️ (also lowkey i didnt *feel* this development…….)

“every evening I see a red sky bleed over blue water and think of us. Have you ever watched this kind of sunset? The colours don’t blend: the redder the sky the bluer the water, as we tilt away from the sun.”

yo that’s kinda gay

working this hard just to create a perfume that you hope your penpal might like…… hmm i see you

These attempts at humour are not really working for me.

“A fugitive becomes a queen or a scientist or, worse, a poet.” — bruh