" Then she said, 'When you don't have it too badly - when you can live to maybe fifty years - when your body's dying from the inside out, when your blood cells are eating you alive the whole time...it makes for such a necromancer, Gideon the Ninth. A walking thanergy generator. If they could figure out someway to stop you when you're mostly cancer and just a little bit woman, they would! "

― Tamsyn Muir , Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)