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Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2) QUOTES

Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2) QUOTES

1 " They’re dead words—a human chain reaching back ten thousand years,” said the corpse. “How did they feel?”
“Genuinely sad, bordering on very funny,” said God. "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

2 " O corse of the Locked Tomb," you extemporized wildly. "Beloved dead, hear your handmaiden. I loved you with my whole rotten, contemptible heart―I loved you to the exclusion of aught else―let me live long enough to die at your feet."

Then you went under to make war on Hell. "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

3 " I refuse to let you build your house on such shiftless & ureal sand. "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

4 " Your only settings were power-vomit and murder "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

5 " Well, I tried, and therefore no one should criticize me. "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

6 " I remember being eighteen.”
“You are twenty-two.”
“It’s a universe away from eighteen. "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

7 " Bones are mediocre. "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

8 " you hating me always meant more than anyone else in this hot and stupid universe loving me. At least I’d had your full attention. "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

9 " Fuck one flesh, one end, Harrow. I already gave my flesh to you, and I already gave you my end. I gave you my sword. I gave you myself. I did it while knowing I’d do it all again, without hesitation, because all I ever wanted you to do was eat me. "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

10 " It had bewildered her, back at Canaan House, how the whole of her always seemed to come back to Gideon. For one brief and beautiful space of time, she had welcomed it: that microcosm of eternity between forgiveness and the slow, uncomprehending agony of the fall. Gideon rolling up her shirt sleeves. Gideon dappled in shadow, breaking promises. One idiot with a sword and an asymmetrical smile had proved to be Harrow’s end: her apocalypse swifter than the death of the Emperor and the sun with him. "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

11 " But Harrowhark—Harrow, who was two hundred dead children; Harrow, who loved something that had not been alive for ten thousand years—Harrowhark Nonagesimus had always so badly wanted to live. She had cost too much to die. "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

12 " You didn’t have your original thumb and I’d touched your intestines, which is usually what, fourth date, but you were fine. "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

13 " And instead you rolled a rock over me and turned your back. I spent all that time drowning and surfacing in you, over and over and over, and all because in the end you could not bear to do the one thing I asked you to do. I wanted you to use me, you malign, double-crossing, corpse-obsessed bag of bones, you broken, used-up shithead! I wanted you to live and not die, you imaginary-girlfriend-having asshole! Fuck one flesh, one end, Harrow. I already gave my flesh to you, and I already gave you my end. I gave you my sword. I gave you myself. I did it while knowing I’d do it all again, without hesitation, because all I ever wanted you to do was eat me. "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

14 " Unexpectedly, this did not kill her; and what did not kill her made her curious. "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

15 " I KISSED YOU AND LATER I WOULD KISS HIM TOO BEFORE I UNDERSTOOD WHAT YOU WERE, AND ALL THREE OF US LIVED TO REGRET IT—BUT WHEN I AM IN HEAVEN I WILL REMEMBER YOUR MOUTH, AND WHEN YOU ROAST DOWN IN HELL I THINK YOU WILL REMEMBER MINE "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

16 " So I’m shut in here—walled in, really—to prevent the Nine Houses becoming none House, with left grief. "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

17 " I am sick of roses, and I am horny for revenge. "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

18 " There was so much I should have told you. I just didn't have time. I didn't know. I didn't know I'd have to say: A sword doesn't hold an edge on its own, you sack of Ninth House garbage. I didn't know I'd have to say, if you dip a sword into melty bone, the metal gets more pitted than an iron mine, you cross-patched necromantic shit.

I think the main thing I should have said was, You sawed open your skull rather than be beholden to someone. You turned your brain into soup to escape anything less than 100 percent freedom. You put me in a box and buried me rather than give up your own goddamned agenda.

Harrowhark, I gave you my whole life and you didn't even want it.

Actually, scratch that, the main thing I should have said was, SQUATS ARE A START, OR A COUPLE OF STAR JUMPS, THEY'RE NOT DIFFICULT. "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

19 " He was a mystery too boring to solve. "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

20 " Again, let me say: sorry. It was not my thumb to let them bite off. I admit completely that this was my bad, but these motherfuckers had a hunger that only thumbs could satisfy. "

― Tamsyn Muir , Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)