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[aredhels]

THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

I want to be a body for you. I want to chase you, find you, I want to be eluded and teased and adored; I want to be defeated and victorious—I want you to cut me, sharpen me. I want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand.

[facinaoris]

Dearest, deepest Blue— At the end as at the start, and through all the in-betweens, I love you. Red

[henwilsons]

happiest birthday, aish @coultermarisa! ♡

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. 

[ladyeowyn]

...and every time love’s written in all the strands it will be to you. But never again like this...

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

[joanwatsonias]

Most letters begin with a direct address to reader.

this is how you lose the time war, amal el-mohtar & max gladstone

[generalstarkov]

this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mothar and max gladtone

[rhodeslibby]

@storyseekers event 14: book to read to understand me

— At the end as at the start, and through all the in-betweens, I love you.

[august-landry]

this is how you lose the time war — amal el-mohtar & max gladstone

[daykevin]

BOOKS READ IN 2021 ➙ this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone

love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down. 

[parhelias]

It’s amazing how much blue there is in the world, if you look. You’re different colors of flame: Bismuth burns blue, and cerium, germanium, and arsenic. See? I pour you into things.

[lunaathorne]

books read in 2020: this is how you lose the time war by max gladstone and amal el-mohtar (★★★★☆)

the twist of you in me. the writhe. you're a whip uncoiling in my veins, and I write between the rearing and the snap. of course I write to you. of course I ate your words.

[halscavendish-moved]

books read in 2021 - this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone 

↳ “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.”

[astreiants-archive]

followers' favourite lgbt books ☆ this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar & max gladstone

i want to be a body for you. i want to chase you, find you, i want to be eluded and teased and adored; i want to be defeated and victorious—i want you to cut me, sharpen me. i want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand. flowers grow far away on a planet they’ll call cephalus, and these flowers bloom once a century, when the living star and its black-hole binary enter conjunction. i want to fix you a bouquet of them, gathered across eight hundred thousand years, so you can draw our whole engagement in a single breath, all the ages we’ve shaped together.

[foxmountchristen-archive]

@storyseekers event 04 : time — this is how you lose the time war

— “books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.”

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SAPPHIC BOOKS I ADORE 5/? » this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone

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

[generalstarkov]

Speaking of your letter. I feel—to speak of it would be to contain what it did to me, to make it small. I don’t want to do that. Even poetry, which breaks language into meaning—poetry ossifies, in time, the way trees do. What’s supple, whipping, soft, and fresh grows hard armor.

If I could touch you, put my finger to your temple and sink you into me the way Garden does—perhaps then. But I would never. So this letter instead.