“To paraphrase a prophet: Letters are structures, not events. Yours give me a place to live inside”
―
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone,
This is How You Lose the Time War
“I have observed friendships as one observes high holy days: breathtakingly short, whirlwinds of intimate behavior, frenzied carousing, the sharing of food, of wine, of honey. Compressed, always, and gone as soon as they come.” ― Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War
“The trouble with atheism," Temoc said, "is that it offers a limited range of curses.” ― Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise
“A desire to be apart, sometimes, to understand who I am without the rest. And what I return to, the me-ness that I know as pure, inescapable self . . . . is hunger. Desire. Longing, this longing to possess, to become, to break like a wave on a rock and reform, and break again, and wash away.” ― Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War
“The God Wars had not been a pleasant time for Craftsmen and Craftswomen around the world. One day, you’re a simple thaumaturge, idly meddling in matters man was not meant to comprehend. The next, a collection of beings as old as humanity, with legions of followers, declare war on your “kind”, and neighbours who once thought you a harmless eccentric with a fondness for mystic sigils and foul unguents see you as an affront to Creation.” ― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead
“He drinks the life of those who come too close to him. Steals their youth. Also,” she said after a pause, “he moisturizes.” ― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead
“Be careful. As if something’s going to jump us in a library.”“You might be surprised.”“What do you mean?”“You know how people say a book is really gripping?”“Don’t tell me…” Cat trailed off.“Libraries can be dangerous.” ― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead
“And pretty is not even the right word. She burns. She's a verb.” ― Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise
“Words can wound, but they're bridges too. Like the bridges that are all the Genghis left behind. Though maybe a bridge can also be a wound” ― Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War
“Sometimes you have to hold a person, though they'll mistake embrace for strangulation.” ― Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War
“If we're to be at war, we might as well entertain one another.” ― Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War
“Put not your trust in things, but in men. And women.” ― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead
“Do not ignore dreams. They are a line from the past to the future. All nightmares are real.” ― Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise
“It’s art. If you’re looking at it, it’s working.” ― Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise
“Gods, like men, can die. They just die harder, and smite the earth with their passing.” ― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead
“Never ask a poet to tell you the truth. We have ten different ways to describe a drink of water, and each is true and all lie.” ― Max Gladstone, Full Fathom Five
“For half a century he had stood too close to darkness, and some it crept into his bones.” ― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead
“So in this letter, I am yours.” ― Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War
“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.” ― Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War
“I have observed friendships as one observes high holy days: breathtakingly short, whirlwinds of intimate behavior, frenzied carousing, the sharing of food, of wine, of honey. Compressed, always, and gone as soon as they come.” ― Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War
“The trouble with atheism," Temoc said, "is that it offers a limited range of curses.” ― Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise
“A desire to be apart, sometimes, to understand who I am without the rest. And what I return to, the me-ness that I know as pure, inescapable self . . . . is hunger. Desire. Longing, this longing to possess, to become, to break like a wave on a rock and reform, and break again, and wash away.” ― Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War
“The God Wars had not been a pleasant time for Craftsmen and Craftswomen around the world. One day, you’re a simple thaumaturge, idly meddling in matters man was not meant to comprehend. The next, a collection of beings as old as humanity, with legions of followers, declare war on your “kind”, and neighbours who once thought you a harmless eccentric with a fondness for mystic sigils and foul unguents see you as an affront to Creation.” ― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead
“He drinks the life of those who come too close to him. Steals their youth. Also,” she said after a pause, “he moisturizes.” ― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead
“Be careful. As if something’s going to jump us in a library.”“You might be surprised.”“What do you mean?”“You know how people say a book is really gripping?”“Don’t tell me…” Cat trailed off.“Libraries can be dangerous.” ― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead
“And pretty is not even the right word. She burns. She's a verb.” ― Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise
“Words can wound, but they're bridges too. Like the bridges that are all the Genghis left behind. Though maybe a bridge can also be a wound” ― Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War
“Sometimes you have to hold a person, though they'll mistake embrace for strangulation.” ― Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War
“If we're to be at war, we might as well entertain one another.” ― Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War
“Put not your trust in things, but in men. And women.” ― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead
“Do not ignore dreams. They are a line from the past to the future. All nightmares are real.” ― Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise
“It’s art. If you’re looking at it, it’s working.” ― Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise
“Gods, like men, can die. They just die harder, and smite the earth with their passing.” ― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead
“Never ask a poet to tell you the truth. We have ten different ways to describe a drink of water, and each is true and all lie.” ― Max Gladstone, Full Fathom Five
“For half a century he had stood too close to darkness, and some it crept into his bones.” ― Max Gladstone, Three Parts Dead
“So in this letter, I am yours.” ― Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War
“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.” ― Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War
