Shannon

“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”
― Tamsyn Muir, 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”
― Tamsyn Muir, 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.”
― Tamsyn Muir, 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.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth