Thinking of what it must have meant, to burn only small and insignificant things for eight long years, to deliberately diminish herself the same way she’d been imprisoned in the carving.
“They all agreed that whatever made Nona happy at school made Nona happy at school, but the bottom line remained that she shouldn’t buy anybody drugs.”
― Nona the Ninth
― Nona the Ninth
“You’ve got two scientists and an engineer and a nun and a lawyer and a banker and a cop and an artist. That’s not a defence force, that’s a cop and six different kinds of nerd.”
― Nona the Ninth
― Nona the Ninth
“We were children - playing in the reflections of stars in a pool of water... Thinking it was space.”
― Nona the Ninth
― Nona the Ninth
“They kept saying cows watched sunsets. At that point I wished I’d used the fucking conspiracy theorists instead of the cows. Nobody would’ve cared if I’d turned people inside-out who think vaccines have nanites in them that mine cryptocurrency. But cows watch sunsets, man!”
― Nona the Ninth
― Nona the Ninth
“Kiriona turned her body to look at them. Nona couldn’t quite believe that they couldn’t all see it; but they weren’t watching, goggle-eyed, they hadn’t even seemed to notice. It was in Kiriona’s every movement—the bright, swift flexions of her arms, and the way she swung her legs, big and brash, and the weirdly easy, light grace with which she moved her dead body.
Nona had never seen anyone so sad in her whole short life. It made her nearly afraid to die.”
― Nona the Ninth
Nona had never seen anyone so sad in her whole short life. It made her nearly afraid to die.”
― Nona the Ninth
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