Amal El-Mohtar

There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix.

— Amal El-Mohtar

“Atlantis sinks. Serves it right. Red hates the place. For one thing, there are so many Atlantises, always sinking, in so many…

— Amal El-Mohtar

“...we have, each of us, a story that is uniquely ours, a narrative arc that we can walk with purpose once we…

— Amal El-Mohtar

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

— Amal El-Mohtar

“At the end as at the start, and through all the in-betweens, I love you.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

“Words are abstraction, break off from the green; words are patterns in the way fences and trenches are. Words hurt. I can…

— Amal El-Mohtar

“And everyone is alive, somewhere in time.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

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

— Amal El-Mohtar

“She soaked her feet in salt and stared up at the stars and wondered whether drowning would hurt.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

“knowing things is nicer when somebody else knows you know them.”

— Amal El-Mohtar

“Coleridge wrote a poem called ‘The Eolian Harp,’ in which he explored the notion of music slumbering on its instrument. It's a…

— Amal El-Mohtar

“But I am the songbird running out of air, and I must breathe.”

— Amal El-Mohtar