Harrow The Ninth Quotes

“I spent all that time drowning and surfacing in you, over and over and over, and all because in the end you could not bear to do the one thing I asked you to do.

I wanted you to use me, you malign, double-crossing, corpse-obsessed bag of bones, you broken, used-up shithead! I wanted you to live and not die, you imaginary-girlfriend-having asshole! Fuck one flesh, one end, Harrow. I already gave my flesh to you, and I already gave you my end. I gave you my sword. I gave you myself. I did it while knowing I'd do it all again, without hesitation, because all l ever wanted you to do was eat me.

Which is, coincidentally, what your mother said to me last night.”
― Tamsyn Muir

“Harrow, I heard it. It fractured your fucking skull... Child, that bee mashed you. A skull should not have made those sounds. The sound of it un-smashing was even worse--like an egg blowing back out again--but as it was saving your only skull, it was music to me ears.”
― Tamsyn Muir

“I have never been murdered before, and I truly don't intend to start now.”
― Tamsin Muir

“I hate you all," said Mercymorn passionately. "I have hated you for millennia...except you, my lord,"
"Thanks," said God.
"I merely want to put you in a jail," said his Lyctor, now meditative, "and fill up the jail with acid once for every time you made a frivolous remark, or ate peanuts in a Cohort Admiralty meeting, or said, 'What would I know, I'm only God.' Then at the end of a thousand years, you would say, 'Mercy, I have learned not to do any of these things, because I hated the acid you put on me.' And I would say, 'That is why I did it, Lord. I did it for you, and for your empire.' I often think about this," she finished.
The Emperor of the Nine Houses said, "I ate peanuts, discreetly, the once.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“I spent all that time drowning and surfacing in you, over and over and over, and all because in the end you could not bear to do the one thing I asked you to do.

I wanted you to use me, you malign, double-crossing, corpse- obsessed bag of bones, you broken, used-up shithead! I wanted you to live and not die, you imaginary-girlfriend-having asshole! Fuck one flesh, one end, Harrow. I already gave my flesh to you, and I already gave you my end. I gave you my sword. I gave you myself, I did it while knowing Id do it all again, without hesitation, because all lever wanted you to do was eat me.
Which is, coincidentally, what your mother said to me last night.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth