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This Is How You Lose the Time War
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"This Is How You Lose the Time War" Quotes

Two time-traveling agents from warring futures leave letters for each other across time, slowly falling in love and challenging the fate of their worlds.

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I am not a woman. I am an adjective.

Amal El-Mohtar

identity

I am the war. The war is me.

Amal El-Mohtar

war

I am a letter written in time.

Amal El-Mohtar

timecommunication

To lose a time war is to change the past, to deprive the future.

Amal El-Mohtar

warconsequences

You are the one who makes me real.

Amal El-Mohtar

identityrelationships

The past is not a place to visit.

Amal El-Mohtar

timepast

You are the first of your kind. That makes you lonely.

Amal El-Mohtar

loneliness

I am Red. I am not a real person. I am a code, a cipher, a cipher, a letter.

Amal El-Mohtar

identity

My body is my own. My letter is not.

Amal El-Mohtar

identityautonomy

You are a creature of time, like me, but you are not a letter.

Amal El-Mohtar

timeidentity