Top 200 Tamsyn Muir Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “But when she was scared, she was a child again, and she was more afraid of being a child again than anything else in her life.”

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

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3. “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.”

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4. “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.”

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5. “Nona asked if Harrowhark Nonagesimus had been a Distraction in life, and Cam said it always was the quiet ones.”

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6. “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.”

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7. “This is all there is to love? Simply by being in your life, I have added indelibly to its weight?”

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8. “She rounded on him. Harrowhark knew that she was being unfair; she knew that she was being petulant – had been scared into it, and could not soothe herself, and was using any means fair and foul to try to do so now. But when she was scared, she was a child again, and she was more afraid of being a child again than anything else in her life. Almost.”

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9. “Camilla and Palamedes were loved by Nona, said Paul. Pyrrha was loved by Nona. It’s finished, it’s done. You can’t take loved away.”

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10. “My whole life, yes. Yes, forever, yes. Life is too short and love is too long.”

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11. “Harrowhark Nonagesimus did not have anyone to put soluble banana-flavoured antipsychotics under her tongue for her condition. I do, and therefore I would like to thank every key worker in my past who had to administer me medication, because they were always nice about it and often I was not.”

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12. “No,” said Crown. “I’m boobs and hair and talk and a hell of a sword hand.”

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13. “Your heart is a party for five thousand nails,’ said Gideon.”

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14. “Love and freedom don’t coexist.”

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15. “The Emperor of the Nine Houses said, “I ate peanuts, discreetly, the once.”

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16. “Life is too short and love is too long.”

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17. “Once you’ve stepped in, said the voice in the back of her head, you’re in. This isn’t the Hokey Pokey.”

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18. “Camilla, we did it right, didn’t we?” Palamedes said, and now Nona knew he wasn’t speaking to anyone else in the universe. “We had something very nearly perfect... the perfect friendship, the perfect love. I cannot imagine reaching the end of this life and having any regrets, so long as I had been allowed to experience being your adept.”

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19. “Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity,” he recited, all in one breath. “Correct?”

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20. “Why was I born so attractive?” “Because everyone would have throttled you within the first five minutes otherwise,” said her necromancer.”

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21. “You were so afraid anyone might touch you. You had always been afraid of anyone touching you, and had not known your longing flinch was so obvious to those who tried it.”

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22. “Then we’re all dead, Nav, but let’s bring hell first,′ said Harrow. Gideon looked over her shoulder at her, and caught the Reverend Daughter’s smile. There was blood sweat coming out of her left ear, but her smile was long and sweet and beautiful. Gideon found herself smiling back so hard her mouth hurt.”

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23. “It would have been neater, perhaps, if all of Gideon’s disappointments and woes from birth downward had used that moment as a catalyst: if, filled with a new and fiery determination, she had equipped herself down there in the dark with fresh ambition to become free. She didn’t. She got the depression.”

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24. “What an entirely haunted time to be alive.”

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25. “There had been another girl who grew up alongside Harrow – but she had died before Harrow was born.”

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26. “We were children – playing in the reflections of stars in a pool of water... Thinking it was space.”

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27. “Always your sword, my umbral sovereign; in life, in death, in anything beyond life or death that they want to throw at thee and me. I died knowing that you’d hate me for dying; but Nonagesimus, you hating me always meant more than anyone else than anyone else in this hot and stupid universe loving me. At least I’d had your full attention.”

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28. “She said, “What is this internet?” And he said, “See, I did make a utopia.”

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29. “But when I saw that tall hot glass of skank.”

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30. “You’ve got two scientists and an engineer and a nun and a lawyer and a banker and a cop and an artist. That’s not a defence force, that’s a cop and six different kinds of nerd.”

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31. “Gideon the Ninth, first flower of my house.”

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32. “Sextus,” she said, as though to a very stupid child, “your necromancer is wounded.”

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33. “Harrowhark Nonagesimus had always so badly wanted to live. She had cost too much to die.”

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34. “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 –.”

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35. “Sounds like the start of a joke, right? Two scientists, an engineer, a detective, a lawyer, and an artist walk into a bar to help me become God.”

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36. “Sextus gave her turbo cancer.”

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37. “That I’m beautiful?” said Nona. “No. About the Angel. The Angel’s worried.” “Okay,” said Nona. “Stay on the grounds today,” said Hot Sauce. “When you take Noodle.”

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38. “O corse of the Locked Tomb, she prayed silently to herself, the cold death to anyone who looks at me in pity; the heat death to anyone who looks to me in amusement; the quick death to anyone who looks at me in fear.”

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39. “You can’t take loved away.”

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40. “The Sixth House owes Pyrrha Dve everything barring tenure.”

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41. “He sighed and said, “We had the internet. We decided to stream.” She said, “What is this internet?” And he said, “See, I did make a utopia.”

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42. “Ortus wasn’t made in his mould. Coupling him to Harrow had been rather like yoking a doughnut to a cobra.”

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43. “I love a little gall on gall.”

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44. “So I’m shut in here – walled in, really – to prevent the Nine Houses becoming none House, with left grief.”

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45. “I have spent your life trying to make you regret that you weren’t dead, all because – I regretted I wasn’t! I ate you alive, and you have the temerity to tell me that you’re sorry?”

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46. “If you think anything I did, I did to make her love me, then you don’t know anything about her and me. I’m her cavalier, dipshit! I’d kill for her! I’d die for her! I did die for her. I’d do anything she needed, anything at all, before she even knew she needed it. I’m her sword, you pasty-faced Coronabeth-looking knock-off.”

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47. “I am sick of roses, and I am horny for revenge.”

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48. “Abigail Pent has been interfered with and opened up.” “Please elaborate opened up, because my imagination is better than your description and I am not having a lot of fun here,” said Gideon.”

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49. “If you want to wallow in your shockingly vast reserves of self-pity, cut your throat and save me the food bill.”

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50. “He was a mystery too boring to solve.”

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