Isabella

“He stood there and he said: “Do you remember what I said was coming?”

She said, “Yes.”

He said, “This is the part where I hurt you. Are you ready?”

She said, “Yes.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“Child, that bee smashed you.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow 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

“Tell me no, and we’ll go on as we have been… and we’ll go on unafraid… but say yes, and we will make this end, and this beginning, together.”

Camilla shivered all over. Then she was at rest; she relaxed her head–the lines of her neck drooped like a flower–she raised it again.

“Palamades, yes,” she said. “My whole life, yes. Yes, forever, yes. Life is too short and love is too long.”

He demanded: “Tell me how to do it, and I’ll do it.”

Camilla said, “Go loud.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth