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Kissing Eleanor could not serve a tidy purpose for me. Kissing Eleanor radically reoriented my inner life.
“I have tried to dismantle you, Gideon Nav! The Ninth House poisoned you, we trod you underfoot—I took you to this killing field as my slave—you refuse to die, and you pity me! Strike me down. You’ve won. I’ve lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone, and God knows I deserve to die at your hand. You are my only friend. I am undone without you.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
“There was no room inside her for emotions like this. For yearning like this. For loneliness like this. But she was so human-shaped. She was so human-shaped. How could she live in this vessel and not feel any attachment to the world, to its people?”
― Iron Heart
― Iron Heart
“Life is too short and love is too long.”
― Nona the Ninth
― Nona the Ninth
“We are one flesh.” Clack.
“I am your end.”
Pause. “That didn’t mean I got squatting rights in your soul. I never would have asked for that. I never had rights to that.”
Clack. “Sure. That’s why I gave them to you.”
Clack. Pause. Pause. Pause.
“I hope you know that I adore you, Scholar.”
Clack. “Indubitably, Warden.”
― Nona the Ninth
“I am your end.”
Pause. “That didn’t mean I got squatting rights in your soul. I never would have asked for that. I never had rights to that.”
Clack. “Sure. That’s why I gave them to you.”
Clack. Pause. Pause. Pause.
“I hope you know that I adore you, Scholar.”
Clack. “Indubitably, Warden.”
― Nona the Ninth
“To be kin to a dragon, you must not only have a soul of water. You must have the blood of the sea, and the sea is not always pure. It is not any one thing. There is darkness in it, and danger, and cruelty. It can raze great cities with its rage. Its depths are unknowable; they do not see the touch of the sun. To be a Miduchi is not to be pure, Tané. It is to be the living sea. That is why I chose you. You have a dragon’s heart.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
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