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"In the wild ride that has been my experience with this series, I am extraordinarily attached to a side character who I fear might not show up much at all, but Urbana, babe, this one's for you <3" — Oct 12, 2025 09:15PM
"In the wild ride that has been my experience with this series, I am extraordinarily attached to a side character who I fear might not show up much at all, but Urbana, babe, this one's for you <3" — Oct 12, 2025 09:15PM


“Of course... I still wonder about every stranger who gives me a knowing look. About every cat who watched me too closely. I can only hope I reached her in some small way. I can only hope that if she does come back, she'll know me for who I am. A friend.”
― Nimona
― Nimona

“We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.”
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“Until this moment, Wylan hadn't quite understood how much they meant to him. His father would have sneered at these thugs and thieves, a disgraced soldier, a gambler who couldn't keep out of the red. But they were his first friends, his only friends, and Wylan knew that even if he'd had his pick of a thousand companions, these would have been the people he chose.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom

“I think of my father - not him swinging at me, but of all the times he's told me how pathetic I am. How useless and hopeless and embarrassing I am, good for nothing and will amount to nothing and nothing, nothing, nothing - reason after reason until I had begun to believe it wasn't worth putting up my hands.
And here's Scipio, telling me I'm worth defending.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
And here's Scipio, telling me I'm worth defending.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“In the east," she says after a time, her gaze still downcast, "there is a tradition known as kintsukuroi. It is the practice of mending broken ceramic pottery using lacquer dusted with gold and silver and other precious metals. It is meant to symbolize that things can be more beautiful for having been broken."
"Why are you telling me this?" I ask.
At last she looks at me. Her irises are polished obsidian in the moonlight. "Because I want you to know," she says, "that there is life after survival.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
"Why are you telling me this?" I ask.
At last she looks at me. Her irises are polished obsidian in the moonlight. "Because I want you to know," she says, "that there is life after survival.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
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