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“And Nona found herself saying– “I’m ready to die… really ready.”
“Nothing is really ready to die,” said the Captain.”
― Nona the Ninth
“Nothing is really ready to die,” said the Captain.”
― Nona the Ninth
“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
“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
“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
“She wanted to shout. She wanted to be listened to. She wished the barrier had taken her hands. She wished she had thrust herself into it–become that big seething mass of flesh and meat and tendrils–ruined her body, just melted it; come back messed up, so that nobody could want her body but her, so that it would be hers and nobody else’s.”
― Nona the Ninth
― Nona the Ninth
Shannon’s 2024 Year in Books
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1,494 books
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10 friends
715 books
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952 books
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287 books
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1,917 books
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330 books
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588 books
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319 books
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