V

“What do Marta the Second, Naberius the Third, Jeannemary the Fourth, Magnus the Fifth, Camilla the Sixth, Protesilaus the Seventh, Colum the Eighth, and Gideon the Ninth all have in common?” You could have heard a hair flutter to the floor. Everyone stared, poker-faced, in the thick ensuing silence. Magnus looked pleased with himself. “The same middle name,” he said.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“This calls for rigor, Nav.’

‘Maybe rigor…mortis,’ said Gideon, who assumed that puns were funny automatically.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Harrow, you can’t just ask someone why they want to be a Lyctor,”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth