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This Is How You Lose the Time War

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Amal El-Mohtar
Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar is a renowned author whose works span various literary genres, including novels, poetry, and plays. Her writing is acclaimed for its rich imagination and profound emotional expression. more

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“Nothing so tempts us to approach another person as what is keeping us apart; and what barrier is so insurmountable as silence? It has been said also that silence is torture, capable of goading to madness the man who is condemned to it in a prison cell. But what an even greater torture than that of having to keep silence it is to have to endure the silence of the person one loves!”

“He did not like the thought that he was to blame, but the only alternative he could think of to explain their behavior was much worse: that all the love and attention his parents had given him before had somehow been the result of George’s presence, and with George gone there was nothing for him … and all of that had happened at random, for no reason at all. And if you put your ear to that door, you could hear the winds of madness blowing outside.”