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“It had bewildered her, back at Canaan House, how the whole of her always seemed to come back to Gideon. For one brief and beautiful space of time, she had welcomed it: that microcosm of eternity between forgiveness and the slow, uncomprehending agony of the fall. Gideon rolling up her shirt sleeves. Gideon dappled in shadow, breaking promises. One idiot with a sword and an asymmetrical smile had proved to be Harrow’s end: her apocalypse swifter than the death of the Emperor and the sun with him.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“I do not feel it. I watch the ink bloom across my skin, guided by her careful hand, watch the little line form between her brows as she concentrates, and the others dancing around us, and the night leaned up against a window, and please remember it like this, just like this.
The good part.
This part is so fucking good.”
― Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers

“Because you choose sides in war and I chose the one that makes me feel human, and this I will not apologize for.”
― Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers

“Life is too short and love is too long.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth