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“Ghosts and monsters," the lady of the Seventh continues enthusiastically, "remnants and the dead . . . the disturbed dead. The idea that someone is still here and furious . . . or that something has been lurking here forever. Maybe it's that I find the idea comforting . . . that thousands of years after you're gone . . . is when you really live. That your echo is louder than your voice.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
“Why are you rebuilding the tragedy that built me?”
― The Weight of the Stars
― The Weight of the Stars
“Nonagesimus,” she said slowly, “the only job I’d do for you would be if you wanted someone to hold the sword as you fell on it. The only job I’d do for you would be if you wanted your ass kicked so hard, the Locked Tomb opened and a parade came out to sing, ‘Lo! A destructed ass.’ The only job I’d do would be if you wanted me to spot you while you backflipped off the top tier into Drearburh.” “That’s three jobs,” said Harrowhark. “Die in a fire, Nonagesimus.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
“I am reminded that I no longer have to wonder, or look back at what was left behind. Because I know who and what I am, and I know where I am going. And I know that when I finally get there, you'll be coming to join me.
Because we'll always wind up at the same place when the sun goes down for good, Raleigh.
We are all together in this incomprehensible wait.”
― The Weight of the Stars
Because we'll always wind up at the same place when the sun goes down for good, Raleigh.
We are all together in this incomprehensible wait.”
― The Weight of the Stars
“They don't want the danger, and the darkness and loneliness," Alexandria interrupted softly. "They want the heat and the light, but they don't want radiation."
Roland closed his mouth and looked at Alexandria with indescribable pain and indescribable fondness.
"The stars have weight," Alexandria finished. "And my little life wasn't heavy enough to outweigh your want of it.”
― The Weight of the Stars
Roland closed his mouth and looked at Alexandria with indescribable pain and indescribable fondness.
"The stars have weight," Alexandria finished. "And my little life wasn't heavy enough to outweigh your want of it.”
― The Weight of the Stars
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