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Love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down.
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A fugitive becomes a queen or a scientist or, worse, a poet.
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Sometimes when you write, you say things I stopped myself from saying.
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There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix.
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And everyone is alive, somewhere in time.
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They would make this war, she thinks, if there were not a war already made for them to make.
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Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.
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But I am the songbird running out of air, and I must breathe.
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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 have built a you within me, or you have. I wonder what of me there is in you.
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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