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“Ianthe looked at you; her blue-and-brown eyes were beatific. “Harry,” she said, and she said it tenderly, “have you never read a trashy novel in which the hero gets a life-affirming change of clothes and some makeup, and then goes to the party and everyone says things like, ‘By the Emperor’s bones! But you’re beautiful,’ or, ‘This is the first time I have ever truly seen you,’ and if the hero’s a necromancer it’ll be described like, ‘His frailty made his unearthly handsomeness all the more ephemeral,’ et cetera, et cetera, the word mewled fifteen pages later, the word nipple one page after that?” You said emphatically: “No.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“I am a Lyctor … Harrow is a Lyctor … and the centuries will entangle us whether she wants them to or— Nav, if you persist in making jack-off motions when I am talking, I will show you what Harrow’s kidneys look like.” “That! That’s what I’m talking about,” I said. “Don’t show me her kidneys. Don’t think about her kidneys. Don’t do anything with her goddamn kidneys. Get a grip. Don’t look at her blood, or lick her bones, or do any of the shit necromancers lie and say they don’t do the moment two of them get nasty.” She shrugged that gold-skinned shoulder. “What can I say,” she said. “I love a little gall on gall.” “Reverse everything I just told you,” I said. “Let’s get married.” “Ah, the romance I have been awaiting all my life,” she said pleasantly”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“I didn’t think this was the time for dirty talk, but I can roll with it,” she said. “Choke me, Daddy.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“Stay here,' I said.
'Get fucked,' she said thickly. 'I absolutely did not become the eighth saint to serve the King Undying so Gideon Nav could play hero for me.'
'Why did you ascend to be a Lyctor?'
'Ultimate power - and posters of my face.'
Fair.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“After a brief pause, he said: 'Harrow, please don't be in such a hurry to die.'
'Do not underestimate me, Teacher,' you said. 'I have always lived.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“You didn’t have your original thumb and I’d touched your intestines, which is usually what, fourth date, but you were fine.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“As I dithered, Pyrrha sandblasted me with the calm, "Your mother would've picked the bullet. "
"Yes, well, jail for Mother, " I said.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“Harrow said, with some difficulty: "I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it."
"Yes you can, it's just less great and less hot," said Gideon."
"Fuck you, Nav—”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“While we were developing common sense, she studied the blade.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Why was I born so attractive?” “Because everyone would have throttled you within the first five minutes otherwise,”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“He had the eyes of a very beautiful person, trapped in resting bitch face.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“She had left Harrowhark a note on her vastly underused pillow— WHATS WITH THE SKULLS? and received only a terse— Ambiance.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“You couldn’t spell obligation if I shoved the letters up your ass.”

“I gotta say, I don’t think that would help,” said Gideon. “God, I’m glad you didn’t teach me my spelling.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Alas. I have a bad personality and a stupefying deficit of attention.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“This calls for rigor, Nav.’

‘Maybe rigor…mortis,’ said Gideon, who assumed that puns were funny automatically.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Once Gideon would have loved to hear Corona talk to her with that low, breathy intensity, maybe saying “Your biceps … they’re eleven out of ten,” but right now she did not want anyone to talk to her at all.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“I know, I’m sorry.” It was the type of apology that one person does for a collective. A pathetic assurance that everyone was sorry for the bigotry committed, even if they didn’t show it. It was the apology of the bystander,”
― Saara El-Arifi, The Final Strife

“When has anyone ever calmed down after being told to?”
― Saara El-Arifi, The Final Strife

“No woman should be made to fear that she was not enough.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“In the tales, she has no name, like too many women in stories of old.”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night

“I intend to take on the habit myself! Cigarettes! On a space station! What a power play.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“You cut up an onion, burn it at the bottom of the pot, put in a few vegetables, and then some meat. It won’t taste like anything, so put in a few teaspoons of salt, and then it’ll taste like a few teaspoons of salt.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“But every dream, if dreamed too long, turns into a nightmare. And we awake from such dreams screaming.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Lady of the Lake

“We won’t manage to do much more than we’re capable of,’ he said more quietly and more warmly. ‘But we shall all do our best to make sure it won’t be much less.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Lady of the Lake

“If the world is to be saved like that-' the Witcher lifted his head '-it would be better for it to perish”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora

“Women don't need money. I mean what for? They don't drink, they don't play dice, and they're bloody women themselves.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Pani Jeziora

“I can’t bear the pointlessness of what we’re doing. Because it is pointless. It’s one great, enormous pointless pit of pointlessness.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Lady of the Lake

“Oh, calm down, Sheikh." Zaynab shivered. "It's cold up here."
"Cold? We're djinn! You are literally created from fire.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“Not wanting to be destroyed by despair doesn’t make you a coward. It makes you a survivor.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold