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Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “But why? Red has done what she came to do, she thinks. But wars are dense with causes and effects, calculations and strange attractors, and all the more so are wars in time. One spared life might be worth more to the other side than all the blood that stained Red’s hands today. A fugitive becomes a queen or a scientist or, worse, a poet. Or her child does, or a smuggler she trades jackets with in some distant spaceport. And all this blood for nothing.”

101. “But why? Red has done what she came to do, she thinks. But wars are dense with causes and effects, calculations and strange attractors, and all the more so are wars in time. One spared life might be worth more to the other side than all the blood that stained Red’s hands today. A fugitive becomes a queen or a scientist or, worse, a poet. Or her child does, or a smuggler she trades jackets with in some distant spaceport. And all this blood for nothing.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down. You gave me so much: a history, a future, a calm that lets me write these words though I’m breaking. I hope I’ve given you something in return. I think you would want me to know I have... how can there be more when this is done?”

102. “Love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down. You gave me so much: a history, a future, a calm that lets me write these words though I’m breaking. I hope I’ve given you something in return. I think you would want me to know I have... how can there be more when this is done?”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “She is, briefly, Blue, alone with Red, and together.”

103. “She is, briefly, Blue, alone with Red, and together.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “It’s not that I never noticed before how many red things there are in the world. It’s that they were never any more relevant to me than green or white or gold. Now it’s as if the whole world sings to me in petals, feathers, pebbles, blood. Not that it didn’t before–Garden loves music with a depth impossible to sound–but now its song’s for me alone.”

104. “It’s not that I never noticed before how many red things there are in the world. It’s that they were never any more relevant to me than green or white or gold. Now it’s as if the whole world sings to me in petals, feathers, pebbles, blood. Not that it didn’t before–Garden loves music with a depth impossible to sound–but now its song’s for me alone.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “So in this letter I am yours.”

105. “So in this letter I am yours.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Ask the pilgrims how the labyrinth came to be, and they offer answers varied as their sins.”

106. “Ask the pilgrims how the labyrinth came to be, and they offer answers varied as their sins.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “This feels like being cut off, again, in the strangest way – feels like teetering on the brink of something that will unmake me.”

107. “This feels like being cut off, again, in the strangest way – feels like teetering on the brink of something that will unmake me.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “How to say what it means to me, that I might have taught you this – shared it, somehow, infected you with it. I hope it isn’t a burden at the same time that I want you seared by it. I want to sharpen your hungers fully as much as I long to satisfy them, one letter-seed at a time.”

108. “How to say what it means to me, that I might have taught you this – shared it, somehow, infected you with it. I hope it isn’t a burden at the same time that I want you seared by it. I want to sharpen your hungers fully as much as I long to satisfy them, one letter-seed at a time.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Her limbs inform her that they ache where they clutch this ancient trunk above an unfathomable drop.”

109. “Her limbs inform her that they ache where they clutch this ancient trunk above an unfathomable drop.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Keep reading. Keep writing. Keep fighting. We’re all still here.”

110. “Keep reading. Keep writing. Keep fighting. We’re all still here.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Red wrote too much too fast. Her pen had a heart inside, and the nib was a wound in a vein. She stained the page with herself. She sometimes forgets what she wrote, save that it was true, and the writing hurt. But butterfly wings break when touched. Red knows her own weaknesses as well as anyone. She presses too hard, breaks what she would embrace, tears what she would touch to her teeth.”

111. “Red wrote too much too fast. Her pen had a heart inside, and the nib was a wound in a vein. She stained the page with herself. She sometimes forgets what she wrote, save that it was true, and the writing hurt. But butterfly wings break when touched. Red knows her own weaknesses as well as anyone. She presses too hard, breaks what she would embrace, tears what she would touch to her teeth.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “You ask if I’ve been lonely. I hardly know how to answer. I have observed friendship as one observes high holy days: breathtakingly short, whirlwinds of intimate endeavour, frenzied carousing, the sharing of food, of wine, of honey. Compressed, always, and gone as soon as they come.”

112. “You ask if I’ve been lonely. I hardly know how to answer. I have observed friendship as one observes high holy days: breathtakingly short, whirlwinds of intimate endeavour, frenzied carousing, the sharing of food, of wine, of honey. Compressed, always, and gone as soon as they come.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “One person may wear different faces in different rooms. Minds swap bodies for sport.”

113. “One person may wear different faces in different rooms. Minds swap bodies for sport.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “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.”

114. “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.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “She is useless to the war effort like this. Might as well shovel snow. But she is a hero, and heroes can shovel snow if they like.”

115. “She is useless to the war effort like this. Might as well shovel snow. But she is a hero, and heroes can shovel snow if they like.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “That’s us, always: the volcano and the wave.”

116. “That’s us, always: the volcano and the wave.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “The future harvests us.”

117. “The future harvests us.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “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. I sing myself out to you, and my talons clutch the branch, and I am wrung out until your next letter gives me breath, fills me to bursting.”

118. “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. I sing myself out to you, and my talons clutch the branch, and I am wrung out until your next letter gives me breath, fills me to bursting.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Red may be mad, but to die for madness is to die for something.”

119. “Red may be mad, but to die for madness is to die for something.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “She seeds the Strand 9 Amazon Basin with defanged versions of European superbugs ten centuries before first contact, and when conquistadors arrive, they face locals by the millions, strong, thriving communities that won’t perish by mere contact with the world across the waves.”

120. “She seeds the Strand 9 Amazon Basin with defanged versions of European superbugs ten centuries before first contact, and when conquistadors arrive, they face locals by the millions, strong, thriving communities that won’t perish by mere contact with the world across the waves.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “You’ve always been the hunger at the heart of me, Red–my teeth, my claws, my poisoned apple. Under the spreading chestnut tree, I made you and you made me.”

121. “You’ve always been the hunger at the heart of me, Red–my teeth, my claws, my poisoned apple. Under the spreading chestnut tree, I made you and you made me.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “She has observed, with pleasure, the very fine china of which the establishment boasts: Meissen’s Ming Dragon, sinuous as arteries, persimmon bright against gilt-edged bone white. She looks forward to her own pot, anticipates the dark, smoky, malty path her chosen tea will pick between the notes of candied rose, delicate bergamot, champagne and muscat and violet.”

122. “She has observed, with pleasure, the very fine china of which the establishment boasts: Meissen’s Ming Dragon, sinuous as arteries, persimmon bright against gilt-edged bone white. She looks forward to her own pot, anticipates the dark, smoky, malty path her chosen tea will pick between the notes of candied rose, delicate bergamot, champagne and muscat and violet.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Killing gets easier with practice, in mechanics and technique. Having killed never does.”

123. “Killing gets easier with practice, in mechanics and technique. Having killed never does.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Because it is the end, she cannot resist the urge to make this deadly thing beautiful.”

124. “Because it is the end, she cannot resist the urge to make this deadly thing beautiful.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “She sometimes forgets what she wrote, save that it was true, and the writing hurt.”

125. “She sometimes forgets what she wrote, save that it was true, and the writing hurt.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “The season turns. You will be free–from your recovery and from your task. I’ll be sent, no doubt, to undo the damage you’ve caused. And we’ll run again, the two of us, upthread and down, firefighter and fire starter, two predators only sated by each other’s words.”

126. “The season turns. You will be free–from your recovery and from your task. I’ll be sent, no doubt, to undo the damage you’ve caused. And we’ll run again, the two of us, upthread and down, firefighter and fire starter, two predators only sated by each other’s words.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “I am not skilled in taking up correspondence. But I have scanned enough books, and indexed enough examples, to essay the form.”

127. “I am not skilled in taking up correspondence. But I have scanned enough books, and indexed enough examples, to essay the form.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “London Next – the same day, month, year, but one strand over – is the kind of London other Londons dream: sepia tinted, skies strung with dirigibles, the viciousness of empire acknowledged only as a rosy backdrop glow redolent of spice and petalled sugar. Mannered as a novel, filthy only where story requires it, all meat pies and monarchy – this is a place Blue loves, and hates herself for loving.”

128. “London Next – the same day, month, year, but one strand over – is the kind of London other Londons dream: sepia tinted, skies strung with dirigibles, the viciousness of empire acknowledged only as a rosy backdrop glow redolent of spice and petalled sugar. Mannered as a novel, filthy only where story requires it, all meat pies and monarchy – this is a place Blue loves, and hates herself for loving.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “She has won, which is not an unfamiliar feeling. She is happy, which is.”

129. “She has won, which is not an unfamiliar feeling. She is happy, which is.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Blue loves cities – their anonymity, their smells and sounds – but she loves forests, too, places other people call quiet that are anything but.”

130. “Blue loves cities – their anonymity, their smells and sounds – but she loves forests, too, places other people call quiet that are anything but.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Violet flowers choke the dead guns. If the planet lasted long enough, the vines that sprout from the corpses’ mouths would grow berries.”

131. “Violet flowers choke the dead guns. If the planet lasted long enough, the vines that sprout from the corpses’ mouths would grow berries.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Red screams at the sky. She calls Beings in which she does not believe to account. She wants there to be a God, so she can curse Her.”

132. “Red screams at the sky. She calls Beings in which she does not believe to account. She wants there to be a God, so she can curse Her.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “I dream of you. I keep more of you inside my mind, my physical, personal, squishy mind, than I keep of any other world or time.”

133. “I dream of you. I keep more of you inside my mind, my physical, personal, squishy mind, than I keep of any other world or time.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “But that is the nature of grammar – it is always tense, like an instrument, aching for release, longing to transform present into past into future, is into was into will.”

134. “But that is the nature of grammar – it is always tense, like an instrument, aching for release, longing to transform present into past into future, is into was into will.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “The tears have anger in them at first, but anger burns out fast. Tears stay.”

135. “The tears have anger in them at first, but anger burns out fast. Tears stay.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “All this running and murder merely passes time.”

136. “All this running and murder merely passes time.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “All good stories travel from the outside in.”

137. “All good stories travel from the outside in.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “I feel almost invincible in our battles’ wake: a kind of Achilles, fleet footed and light of touch. Only in this nonexistent place our letters weave do I feel weak.”

138. “I feel almost invincible in our battles’ wake: a kind of Achilles, fleet footed and light of touch. Only in this nonexistent place our letters weave do I feel weak.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Your fellows have their intrigues and their passions, and now and again a clever play, but there’s none so intricate, so careful, so assured. You’ve whetted me like a stone.”

139. “Your fellows have their intrigues and their passions, and now and again a clever play, but there’s none so intricate, so careful, so assured. You’ve whetted me like a stone.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “She’s kept her gloves clean, for the most part, but now she stains them red as a name.”

140. “She’s kept her gloves clean, for the most part, but now she stains them red as a name.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Blood, as usual, is everywhere. Mostly frozen, this time, which smells better.”

141. “Blood, as usual, is everywhere. Mostly frozen, this time, which smells better.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “I was an elder sister before I was a wife, and for longer, and that’s a shape I can’t easily shake.”

142. “I was an elder sister before I was a wife, and for longer, and that’s a shape I can’t easily shake.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Owls are fascinating creatures, but it’s harder than I’d thought to convince them to take food. Maybe this one didn’t trust me.”

143. “Owls are fascinating creatures, but it’s harder than I’d thought to convince them to take food. Maybe this one didn’t trust me.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “So long as you can hear the waters, everything seems possible: that the sun is the moon, that a star is a cloud, that dusk is dawn, and everything is both hallowed and haunted at the same time.”

144. “So long as you can hear the waters, everything seems possible: that the sun is the moon, that a star is a cloud, that dusk is dawn, and everything is both hallowed and haunted at the same time.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Shadows and sure things are more their style.”

145. “Shadows and sure things are more their style.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Your letter – your last letter. Be certain that I won’t drop it where any of your fellows can read it. It’s mine. I am careful with what belongs to me.”

146. “Your letter – your last letter. Be certain that I won’t drop it where any of your fellows can read it. It’s mine. I am careful with what belongs to me.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Instead I wick the longing into thread, pass it through your needle eye, and sew it into hiding somewhere beneath my skin, embroider my next letter to you one stitch at a time.”

147. “Instead I wick the longing into thread, pass it through your needle eye, and sew it into hiding somewhere beneath my skin, embroider my next letter to you one stitch at a time.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Poetry ossifies, in time, the way trees do.”

148. “Poetry ossifies, in time, the way trees do.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Perhaps someday they’ll assign us side by side, in some small village far upthread, deep cover, each watching each, and we can make tea together, trade books, report home sanitized accounts of each other’s doings. I think I’d still write letters, even then.”

149. “Perhaps someday they’ll assign us side by side, in some small village far upthread, deep cover, each watching each, and we can make tea together, trade books, report home sanitized accounts of each other’s doings. I think I’d still write letters, even then.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar Quote: “Who’s infecting whom? We know from our hoarse Trojans, in my time. Will you respond, establishing complicity, continuing our self-destructive paper trail, just to get in the last word? Will you cut off, leaving my note to spin its fractal math inside you?”

150. “Who’s infecting whom? We know from our hoarse Trojans, in my time. Will you respond, establishing complicity, continuing our self-destructive paper trail, just to get in the last word? Will you cut off, leaving my note to spin its fractal math inside you?”

— Amal El-Mohtar

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