Tamsyn Muir Quotes

“Anyone can learn to fight. Hardly anyone learns to think.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“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