Quotes to Make You Read This Is How You Lose the Time War

Hello everyone! Welcome to Nox Reads, I’m Nox, and today I’m sharing some quotes from This Is How You Lose the Time War in the hopes of getting you to read it!

So I made different graphics with quotes from the book. I hope you enjoy!

I read This Is How You Lose the Time War in a day and absolutely adored it! The writing is gorgeous, especially if you like flowery language!

Light blue background with a dark red feather at the top and a dark blue feather at the bottom. Text reads "A fugitive becomes a queen or a scientist or, worse, a poet."

Light blue background with a dark red feather at the top and a dark blue feather at the bottom. Text reads "You’re different colors of flame: Bismuth burns blue, and cerium, germanium, and arsenic. See? I pour you into things."

Light blue background with a dark red feather at the top and a dark blue feather at the bottom. Text reads " You were right, back when—I have built a you within me, or you have. I wonder what of me there is in you."

Light blue background with a dark red feather at the top and a dark blue feather at the bottom. Text reads "I wish sometimes I could be less fierce with you. No—I feel sometimes like I ought to want to be less fierce with you."

Light blue background with a dark red feather at the top and a dark blue feather at the bottom. Text reads "How I love to have no armor here. 
You wish you could hold me at knifepoint again. 
You do, still, in a way. So long as I bear these last three seeds in a hollow behind my eye, you are a blade against my back. 
I love the danger of it."

Light blue background with a dark red feather at the top and a dark blue feather at the bottom. Text reads "I cannot endanger us, endanger you, any further. But I am the songbird running out of air, and I must breathe. 
I dream."

I hope that these quotes give you just a taste of how beautiful the writing in this book is! If you’ve read it, comment down below what you thought! And if you haven’t, then let me know what kind of writing you prefer: simple and straight-forward, or flowery!

I’ll see you all in the next post!

~Nox

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