Mari L

“And the first child asked: Dost thou oppose me, and thou half-dead?

And the second child said, I am as one half-dead, but you would be two-halves dead, bitch.

To which the first child said, My sweet, I only die of longing for thee.

And the other child said, Then perish.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“Yes, she knew who he was. She knew even before she had asked. She knew when she had looked up and seen him in place of the young man she had expected. But he still told her anyway. "I'm your favorite story," said the Shahmar”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

“This is all there is to love? Simply by being in your life, I have added indelibly to its weight?”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“They all agreed that whatever made Nona happy at school made Nona happy at school, but the bottom line remained that she shouldn’t buy anybody drugs.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth