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“So I’m shut in here—walled in, really—to prevent the Nine Houses becoming none House, with left grief.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
“As I dithered, Pyrrha sandblasted me with the calm, "Your mother would've picked the bullet. "
"Yes, well, jail for Mother, " I said.”
― Harrow the Ninth
"Yes, well, jail for Mother, " I said.”
― Harrow the Ninth
“You want a place to be like it was in the book but it’s not a place in a book it’s just words. The place in your imagination is where you want to go and that place is imaginary.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“Sure, I’d cured a bunch of people of cancer, but I was freaky. They treated us like we’d done some kind of huge crime.
After a pause, he said: I mean, I had kind of done a huge crime. I’d turned several hundred animals inside out and made them into a big art installation and I hadn’t complied with the cops, but extenuating circumstances, okay? There were extenuating circumstances. It wasn’t my fault that turning several hundred animals inside out makes you look like the bad guy. They were beef cattle and mutton; my way was a hell of a lot quicker than the abattoir. But it’s hard to be all, Let’s listen to magical inside-out animal shield man. He obviously has some good ideas. ”
― Nona the Ninth
After a pause, he said: I mean, I had kind of done a huge crime. I’d turned several hundred animals inside out and made them into a big art installation and I hadn’t complied with the cops, but extenuating circumstances, okay? There were extenuating circumstances. It wasn’t my fault that turning several hundred animals inside out makes you look like the bad guy. They were beef cattle and mutton; my way was a hell of a lot quicker than the abattoir. But it’s hard to be all, Let’s listen to magical inside-out animal shield man. He obviously has some good ideas. ”
― Nona the Ninth
“It is a drawing of the letter S" said the deep, solemn voice from over her shoulder, and she realized she had stopped midstride. "The letter in question is constructed from six short marks stacked vertically three by three. There are two triangles on the top and bottom. which, along with some diagonal strokes, form a calligraphic S.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
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