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

“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

“Because in a very real way, you and the others are A.L.’s children… There would be none of you, if not for her.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth