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“We’re all in this together,’ she said, which was a typically Fifth assumption. The Ninth didn’t think anyone was in anything together, or, if they were, they all had to disperse as soon as humanly possible to avoid splash damage.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
“Memory is malleable. History is mutable. All I can do is try to make sure my story isn’t lost.”
― You Feel It Just Below the Ribs
― You Feel It Just Below the Ribs
“You live your life, and then at the end you have to look back on it. You can either accept it or you can’t, but either way, you die with it behind you.”
― You Feel It Just Below the Ribs
― You Feel It Just Below the Ribs
“It had bewildered her, back at Canaan House, how the whole of her always seemed to come back to Gideon. For one brief and beautiful space of time, she had welcomed it: that microcosm of eternity between forgiveness and the slow, uncomprehending agony of the fall. Gideon rolling up her shirt sleeves. Gideon dappled in shadow, breaking promises. One idiot with a sword and an asymmetrical smile had proved to be Harrow’s end: her apocalypse swifter than the death of the Emperor and the sun with him.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
“I think they have to show their worst selves sometimes in order to be sure that even at their worst they are loved. Irene knows how frightened he is."
The King didn't sound frightened.
"Any minute," said Eddis, "he will realise--"
As if her words were magic, silence fell in the tent and Eddis finished in a whisper. "How frightened she is.”
― Return of the Thief
The King didn't sound frightened.
"Any minute," said Eddis, "he will realise--"
As if her words were magic, silence fell in the tent and Eddis finished in a whisper. "How frightened she is.”
― Return of the Thief
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