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101 " The House of the First had been abandoned, and breathlessly waited to be used by someone other than time. "
― Tamsyn Muir , Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
102 " Oh my God, you’re black vestals— Oh my God, you’re the Ninth cav! "
103 " Harrow arranging her breakfast was a concept so disagreeable there was no space left in her head for it "
104 " [S]he looked at Gideon with an expression like an artillery shell midflight. "
105 " The violet of her eyes was dried-up flowers; her mouth was the colour and softness of rocks "
106 " From then on she slept wearing her rapier, her gauntlet on her chest like a heavy obsidian heart. "
107 " If any of the other Houses knew of what we’d done they would destroy us from orbit without a second’s thought. "
108 " Colum blinked. His necromancer did not. “I had heard that you were speaking now,” he said. “It seems a pity. "
109 " Harrow said, "But you're God."And God said, "And I am not enough. "
110 " She stood next to a skeleton whose arms were so full with bits of bone and lengths of tibia that it trailed chips like breadcrumbs. It was easy enough to stand beside it politely until the door opened, then to trip it up, then to step over it. She unsheathed her rapier with a silver whisper, slipping the knuckles of her left hand through the obsidian bands. "
111 " The ashes in the incinerator had been raked out and combed over, and the confirmation that they were human remains was not illuminating. The surviving necromancers had gathered around a bowl of them, and they had all pounced on it like a bowl of peanuts at a party. "
112 " The most she could hope for was Swords, Swords II, and maybe Swords III. “We ask,” began Teacher, “that you never open a locked door unless you have permission. "
113 " Sextus gave her turbo cancer. "
114 " The skeletons aren’t reanimations, Ninth, they’re revenants: ghosts inhabiting a physical shell. "
115 " THOSE EARLY DAYS AT Canaan House spaced themselves out like beads on a prayer string, dilated. "
116 " I need you to trust me.I need you to be trustworthy. "
117 " They do not have to enjoy each other’s society; they must simply take their togetherness as assumed. The cavalier who will not sleep in the same room as their necromancer must question themselves as to why. Their love is the love that fears only for the other: the love of service on both sides. "
118 " 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. "
119 " You want to fight it.Yep.Because it looked... a little like swords. "
120 " Cyntherea's eyes locked on Gideon's.'I meant it,' she said earnestly. ' You were wonderful. You would have made that little nun such a cavalier - I almost wish you'd been mine.' 'You couldn't fucking afford me,' said Gideon. "