“The letter was wrapped around a black, folded-up bunch of angles: smoked glass, thin black frames, mirrored lenses. A little bend in one arm, but otherwise - you'd kept my sunglasses.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
“Tridentarius,' I said, and I had to take a breath to stop myself from hewing her in half. Then I said:
'If you keep acting like you know her - not even like you care about her, but like you know the first thing about her - I will end you here and now. Everything you did to her, you did because she was alone. You thought nobody gave a shit about Harrowhark Nonagesimus. You played with her because you thought it was funny. But she never gave you anything. You never got anywhere.”
― Harrow the Ninth
'If you keep acting like you know her - not even like you care about her, but like you know the first thing about her - I will end you here and now. Everything you did to her, you did because she was alone. You thought nobody gave a shit about Harrowhark Nonagesimus. You played with her because you thought it was funny. But she never gave you anything. You never got anywhere.”
― Harrow the Ninth
“THE ONLY THING OUR CIVILISATION CAN LEARN FROM YOURS IS THAT WHEN OUR BACKS ARE TO THE WALL AND OUR TOWERS ARE FALLING ALL AROUND US AND WE ARE WATCHING OURSELVES BURN
WE RARELY BECOME HEROES.”
― Harrow the Ninth
WE RARELY BECOME HEROES.”
― Harrow the Ninth
“Harrow was too amazed by her body's expanding capacity for despair. It was as though her feeling had doubled even as she looked at it, unfolding, like falling down an endless flight of stairs. She dug her hands into the mattress and she cried for Gideon Nav.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
“You cut up an onion, burn it at the bottom of the pot, put in a few vegetables, and then some meat. It won’t taste like anything, so put in a few teaspoons of salt, and then it’ll taste like a few teaspoons of salt.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
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