Amal El-Mohtar Quotes

Canada, Poet
1985

Amal El-Mohtar is a Canadian poet and writer of speculative fiction. She has published short fiction, poetry, essays and reviews, and has edited the fantastic poetry quarterly magazine Goblin Fruit since 2006.

This is a collection of dexterous, loving, beautifully optimistic work that left me breathless and delighted.... Hannu Rajaniemi's magnificent science fiction - as is paradoxically appropriate - is pure magic.

Amal El-Mohtar
- Work
- Magic
- Fiction
Love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down.

Amal El-Mohtar
- Time
- Love
- Death

Sometimes when you write, you say things I stopped myself from saying.

Amal El-Mohtar
- Write
- Saying
- Stopped
Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.

Amal El-Mohtar
- Care
- Adventure
- Lives
They would make this war, she thinks, if there were not a war already made for them to make.

Amal El-Mohtar
- War
- Made
- Them
A fugitive becomes a queen or a scientist or, worse, a poet.

Amal El-Mohtar
- Poet
- Becomes
- Fugitive
There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix.

Amal El-Mohtar
- Problems
- Coffee
- Fix
I have built a you within me, or you have. I wonder what of me there is in you.

Amal El-Mohtar
- Built
- Within

And everyone is alive, somewhere in time.

Amal El-Mohtar
- Time
- Alive
Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.

Amal El-Mohtar
- Books
- Waves
- Bottles
But I am the songbird running out of air, and I must breathe.

Amal El-Mohtar
- Air
- Breathe
- Songbird