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61 " Harrowhark was pleased because everything was coming up Harrowhark "
― Tamsyn Muir , Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
62 " I want to go,” said Gideon. “This sounds impossibly vapid.” “I want to eat a dessert. "
63 " Ask me how I am and I’ll scream,” she said. “How are you,” said Camilla, who was a pill. “I see you calling my bluff and I resent it,” said Gideon. "
64 " This won’t work,” she said. “I’ve never had to work with something so small before.” “That’s what she said,” murmured Gideon, sotto voce. "
65 " Harrow said, “But you're God.” And God said, “And I am not enough. "
66 " Death first to vultures and scavangers. "
67 " A head start,” said her necromancer, “is the only advantage one can claim by choice. "
68 " Ortus wasn’t made in his mould. Coupling him to Harrow had been rather like yoking a doughnut to a cobra. "
69 " Harrow, you can’t just ask someone why they want to be a Lyctor, "
70 " Idiot.” Harrowhark’s voice was distant and full of badly suppressed adrenaline. “Here. Take this veil.” Gideon kept mopping at her eyes. “I’m all good.” “I said put it on. I’m not having you struck blind when the door opens.” “I came prepared, my sweet.” “What are you even saying half the time— "
71 " She couldn't believe she was being held at bay by someone who had eaten every cavalier manual and chewed dutifully twenty-five times. "
72 " It's a horrible thing to fall out of sight. "
73 " Harrow’s face was bright with elation and fervour. Gideon would have sworn there were tears in her eyes, except that no such liquid existed: Harrow was a desiccated mummy of hate. "
74 " Stop that. I need you listening, not racking your brain for rare negatives. "
75 " 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. "
76 " Suffice to say, all pushing, gripping, finger-inserting and pressing was in vain. It was locked as damn. "
77 " The nuns tried their best, but a few minutes later it was confirmed that one of the hermits had died of shock, and everyone around him celebrated his sacred good fortune. "
78 " As Harrow smouldered with hatred, Gideon began to enjoy herself. "
79 " But what was Teacher the mould for? Griddle, at the first sign of trouble—” “Run like hell,” said Gideon. “I was going to say, Hit it with your sword,” said Harrow. "
80 " Alas. I have a bad personality and a stupefying deficit of attention. "