• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

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• "And all this blood for nothing."
• "Tell me something true, or tell me nothing at all."
• "The horizon blinks, and morning yawns above it."
• "They lived their lives as sacrifices."
• "It is often my duty to fall in love convincingly."
• "To be alone in a crowd, apart and belonging, to have distance between what I see and what I am."
• "And everyone is alive, somewhere in time."
• "So in this letter I am yours."
• "She planned to get to it one day; she plans to get to everything one day."
• "Letters are structures, not events. Yours give me a place to live inside."
• "You have me watching birds, and though I don't know their names like you know them, I have seen small bright singers puff before they trill. That's how I feel."
• "Only in this nonexistent place our letters weave do I feel weak. How I love to have no armour here."
• "If you have read this far, I am not worth you. I am a coward."
• "Perhaps survival is its own form of torture."
• "Sometimes you have to hold a person, though they'll mistake embrace for strangulation."