95 Quotes by Amal El-Mohtar

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.

(Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.)

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

She climbs upthread and down; she braids and unbraids history's hair.

A tremor passes through the soil - do not call it earth. The planet dies. Crickets chirp. Crickets survive, for now, among the crashed ships and broken bodies on this crumbling plain. Silver moss devours steel, and violet flowers choke the dead guns. If this planet lasted long enough, the gives that sprout from the corpses' mouths would grow berries.It won't, and neither will they.

Fortunately, geniuses understand that young men are often fools.

Shadows and sure things are more their style

And everyone is alive, somewhere in time.

There’s a kind of time travel in letters, isn’t there? I imagine you laughing at my small joke; I imagine you groaning; I imagine you throwing my words away. Do I have you still? Do I address empty air and the flies that will eat this carcass? You could leave me for five years, you could return never—and I have to write the rest of this not knowing.