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21 " He had the eyes of a very beautiful person, trapped in resting bitch face. "
― Tamsyn Muir , Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
22 " Why was I born so attractive?” “Because everyone would have throttled you within the first five minutes otherwise, "
23 " She had left Harrowhark a note on her vastly underused pillow— WHATS WITH THE SKULLS? and received only a terse— Ambiance. "
24 " You couldn’t spell obligation if I shoved the letters up your ass.”“I gotta say, I don’t think that would help,” said Gideon. “God, I’m glad you didn’t teach me my spelling. "
25 " Harrow,” said Gideon, “if my heart had a dick you would kick it. "
26 " Don't die in a bone. I am your creature, gloom mistress. I serve you with fidelity as big as a mountain, penumbral lady."Harrow's eyes flickered open. "Stop.""I am your sworn sword, night boss.""Fine," said Harrow heavily.Gideon's mouth was about to round out the words "bone empress" before she realised what had been said. "
27 " I need you to trust me. I need you to be trustworthy. "
28 " I must no longer accept,” she said slowly, “being a stranger to you. "
29 " I have lots of fealty in me. I fealt the Emperor with every bone in my body. I fealt hard. "
30 " Gideon marvelled that someone could live in the universe only seventeen years and yet wear black and sneer with such ancient self-assurance. "
31 " She kept looking at Gideon with the screwed-up eyes of someone who had been handed an egg for safekeeping and was surrounded by egg-hunting snakes. "
32 " Gideon winked at her increasingly agitated companion. She said, sotto voce: “But then you couldn’t have admired … these,” and whipped on the glasses she’d unearthed back home. They were ancient smoked-glass sunglasses, with thin black frames and big mirrored lenses, and they greyed out Harrow’s expression of incredulous horror as she adjusted them on her nose. "
33 " Gideon rolled her eyes so hard that she felt in danger of twisting the optic nerve. "
34 " You’re going to die spewing your own lungs out of your nostrils, having failed at the finish line because you couldn’t help but prattle about why you killed innocent people, as though your reasons were interesting … "
35 " He say anything?” Gideon wavered. “He said to tell you he loved you,” she said. “What? No, he didn’t.” “Okay, no, sorry. He said—he said you knew what to do? "
36 " He urged again, “Thoughts?” Gideon said, “Did you know that if you put the first three letters of your last name with the first three letters of your first name, you get ‘Sex Pal’? "
37 " But Gideon was experiencing one powerful emotion: being sick of everyone's shit. She unsheathed her sword. She slid her gauntlet over her hand, and tightened the wrist straps with her teeth. And she looked over her shoulder at Harrowhark, who was apparently breaking out of a blue funk to experience her own dominant emotion of "oh no, not again." Gideon silently willed her necromancer to put her knucklebones where her mouth was and, for the first time in her life - for the first real time - do what Gideon needed her to do.And Harrowhark rose to the occasion like an evening star. "
38 " Now we kick her ass until candy comes out,” said Gideon. “Oh, damn, Nonagesimus, don’t cry, we can’t fight her if you’re crying. "
39 " He gave the impression of being the guy fun sought out for death. "
40 " You’re not very good at I’m Asking the Questions Now, Bitch, are you,” said Gideon. "