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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone

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"After a mission comes a grand and final silence. Her weapons and armor fold into her like roses at dusk. Once flaps of pseudoskin settle and heal and the programmable matter of her clothing knits back together, Red looks, again, something like a woman."


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A woman in red armor stands amidst a field of roses, petals floating around her as her outfit merges seamlessly with her skin. A humanoid figure in a red armored suit integrated with rose blossoms, standing against a backdrop speckled with floating red petals. A female-like figure in futuristic red armor surrounded by floating rose petals, suggesting a reintegration of her combat form into a more human appearance. A woman with cybernetic armor integrated with red roses stands amidst wires, her expression serene and contemplative.

"We grow in pods, our basic knowledge flashed in cohort by cohort, nutrient balance maintained by the gel bath, and there most of us stay, our minds flitting disembodied through the void from star to star."


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"I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you."


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"I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. Listen to me. I am your echo. I would rather break the world than lose you."


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


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"I want to be a body for you. I want to chase you, find you, I want to be eluded and teased and adored; I want to be defeated and victorious—I want you to cut me, sharpen me. I want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand. Flowers grow far away on a planet they’ll call Cephalus, and these flowers bloom once a century, when the living star and its black-hole binary enter conjunction.I want to fix you a bouquet of them, gathered across eight hundred thousand years, so you can draw our whole engagement in a single breath, all the ages we’ve shaped together."


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"You are a strange and wonderful creature. You are a human, too, but you are filled with such potential for harm."


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"What is the weight of an hour? What is the sound of a heartbeat?"


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"You will slip away from this moment, but here is where you began."


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"Time is a river, winding and branching, filled with all the things we could have done."


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