“I want you lot to make that your motto. What we know is that we don’t know anything.”
Nona quite liked this motto. It was an accurate summary of her entire life”
― Nona the Ninth
Nona quite liked this motto. It was an accurate summary of her entire life”
― Nona the Ninth
“Nor had Pyrrha ever looked at her the way she now looked at the dead corpse with red hair–a kind of soft, guarded want; a hunger–a living desire to take the corpse in her arms like Kevin’s wanting desire with his dolls. To own, to squeeze, to cosset and destroy”
― Nona the Ninth
― Nona the Ninth
“Then he said– “Do you remember what you said to me once I had done it? When we stood there together?”
She looked at him and she said, “Yes.”
He said– “You said, ‘I picked you to change, and this is how you repay me?”
She said– “What else did I say?”
He said, “Where did you put the people? Where did they go?”
She said, “I still love you.”
He said, “You said that too.”
― Nona the Ninth
She looked at him and she said, “Yes.”
He said– “You said, ‘I picked you to change, and this is how you repay me?”
She said– “What else did I say?”
He said, “Where did you put the people? Where did they go?”
She said, “I still love you.”
He said, “You said that too.”
― Nona the Ninth
“Alecto was angry, and raised her up, and kissed her. The child did not cry out, though blood fell from her lips and tongue, and she was wounded sore. For Alecto knew not how to kiss, except such as it involved the mouth and teeth.
And Alecto said to her, Why are you not appeased? That is how meat loves meat.”
― Nona the Ninth
And Alecto said to her, Why are you not appeased? That is how meat loves meat.”
― Nona the Ninth
“There can be no forgiveness.”
“For whom?” she asked.
For a long time he did not answer.”
― Nona the Ninth
“For whom?” she asked.
For a long time he did not answer.”
― Nona the Ninth
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