Amal El-Mohtar

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

“You must dwell, says Garden, within time to shift it in lasting ways; play a slow game, but win.”

“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 addres...”

“And everyone is alive, somewhere in time.”

“When I was a girl, I loved reading. An archaic pastime, I know; the index and download are faster, more efficient, offering superior retention and acquisition of knowledge.”

“...we have, each of us, a story that is uniquely ours, a narrative arc that we can walk with purpose once we figure out what it is. It's the opposite to living our lives episodically, where...”

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