I hate the feeling that something vast and angry is scratching at the corners of reality and looking for a way to kill me.”
“What are Pyrrha’s nicknames for you?”
“Kiddie,” said Nona immediately. “Junior. Small Fry. Cutie Pie. Li’l Bits. Small Cam. Hairy Maclary.”
“Keep going.”
“Nums. No-No. Nope. None. Sweet Nons. Nona-Paloma. The Big No.”
“She should be arrested,” murmured Camilla, then: “Got it.”
― Nona the Ninth
“Kiddie,” said Nona immediately. “Junior. Small Fry. Cutie Pie. Li’l Bits. Small Cam. Hairy Maclary.”
“Keep going.”
“Nums. No-No. Nope. None. Sweet Nons. Nona-Paloma. The Big No.”
“She should be arrested,” murmured Camilla, then: “Got it.”
― Nona the Ninth
“She got the depression. She lay in her cell, picking at life like it was a meal she didn’t want to eat.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
“Love is a revenant, and it accumulates love-stuff to itself, because it is homeless otherwise.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
“You told me, Sleep, I’ll wake you in the morning.
I asked, What is morning? and you said, When everyone who fucked with me is dead.
When everyone we loved has gone or fled,
That’s morning. Empty’s just another word for clean.
Let’s put this first draft dream of mine to bed.
In the appointed hour
I’ll pull up your sheets. I’ll kill the light,
Lie down beside you; die; and sleep the night.
This time will be the time we get it right;
Forgiveness not so hard, nor anger long;
Our graves will be less deep, our lies less true
You held aloft the sword.
I still love y”
― Nona the Ninth
I asked, What is morning? and you said, When everyone who fucked with me is dead.
When everyone we loved has gone or fled,
That’s morning. Empty’s just another word for clean.
Let’s put this first draft dream of mine to bed.
In the appointed hour
I’ll pull up your sheets. I’ll kill the light,
Lie down beside you; die; and sleep the night.
This time will be the time we get it right;
Forgiveness not so hard, nor anger long;
Our graves will be less deep, our lies less true
You held aloft the sword.
I still love y”
― Nona the Ninth
“But maybe we shouldn't," she said, holding the eyelids to that little slit-watching the widening white crack, watching the river water pound it into the place where it wanted to be even if the River itself didn't. "If we end here, it'll be just like ... a bad dream, won't it? And maybe we'll wake up somewhere else. I know we won't," she explained, "but we don't have to know that ... maybe if we all go, it'll be quick.”
― Nona the Ninth
― Nona the Ninth
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