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Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) QUOTES

Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) QUOTES

1 " The man who'd put the sword to her neck was uncomfortably buff. He had upsetting biceps. He didn't look healthy; he looked like a collection of lemons in a sack. "

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

2 " Harrow said, with some difficulty: "I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it."
"Yes you can, it's just less great and less hot," said Gideon."
"Fuck you, Nav— "

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

3 " Too many words,” said Gideon confidentially. “How about these: One flesh, one end, bitch. "

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

4 " In the myriadic year of Our Lord--the ten thousandth year of the King Undying, the kindly Prince of Death!--Gideon Nav packed her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and she escaped from the House of the Ninth. "

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

5 " Today isn't the day when we start to use one another's bodies. Or tomorrow, or ever. We're not barbarians. "

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

6 " Oh, this is boring," Gideon had said in disappointment. "I wanted one with a skull puking another, smaller skull, and other skulls flying all around. But tasteful, you know? "

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

7 " Anyone can learn to fight. Hardly anyone learns to think. "

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

8 " I pray the tomb is shut forever," recited Harrowhawk, with the curious fervidity she always showed in prayer. " I pray the rock is never rolled away. I pray that which was buried remains buried, insensate, in perpetual rest, with closed eye and stilled brain. I pray it lives, I pray it sleeps ... I pray for the needs of the Emperor All-Giving, the Undying King, His Virtues and his men. I pray for the Second House, the Third, the Fourth, the Fifth; the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth. I pray for the Ninth House, and I pray for it to be fruitful. I pray for the soldiers and adepts far from home, and all those parts of the Empire that live in unrest and disquiet. Let it be so. "

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

9 " Haarrow laughed. It was the first time she had ever heard Harrow really laugh. It was a rather weak and tired sound.

"Gideon the Ninth, first flower of my House," she said hoarsely, "you are the greatest cavalier we have ever produced. You are our triumph, The best of all of us. It has been my privilege to be your necromancer. "

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

10 " Harrow laughed. It was the first time she had ever heard Harrow really laugh. It was a rather weak and tired sound.

"Gideon the Ninth, first flower of my House," she said hoarsely, "you are the greatest cavalier we have ever produced. You are our triumph, The best of all of us. It has been my privilege to be your necromancer. "

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

11 " I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it "

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

12 " One flesh, one end, bitch. "

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

13 " Her adept said: "I'll keep it off you. Nav, show them what the Ninth House does."

Gideon lifted her sword. The construct worked itself free of its last confines of masonry and rotten wood and heaved before them, flexing itself like a butterfly.

"We do bones, motherfucker," she said. "

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

14 " But Gideon was experiencing one powerful emotion: being sick of everyone’s shit. "

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

15 " I have tried to dismantle you, Gideon Nav! The Ninth House poisoned you, we trod you underfoot—I took you to this killing field as my slave—you refuse to die, and you pity me! Strike me down. You’ve won. I’ve lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone, and God knows I deserve to die at your hand. You are my only friend. I am undone without you. "

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

16 " While we were developing common sense, she studied the blade. "

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

17 " Harrowhark said, in the exact sepulchral tones of Marshal Crux: “Death first to vultures and scavengers. "

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

18 " If you do not find yourself a galaxy, it is not so bad to find yourself a star. "

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

19 " Nonagesimus,” she said slowly, “the only job I’d do for you would be if you wanted someone to hold the sword as you fell on it. The only job I’d do for you would be if you wanted your ass kicked so hard, the Locked Tomb opened and a parade came out to sing, ‘Lo! A destructed ass.’ The only job I’d do would be if you wanted me to spot you while you backflipped off the top tier into Drearburh.”

“That’s three jobs,” said Harrowhark. "

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

20 " Maybe it's that I find the idea comforting...that thousands of years after you're gone...is when you really live. That your echo is louder than your voice is. "

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