Top 200 Tamsyn Muir Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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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2. “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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3. “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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4. “Harrowhark said, in the exact sepulchral tones of Marshal Crux: “Death first to vultures and scavengers.”

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5. “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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6. “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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7. “So I’m shut in here – walled in, really – to prevent the Nine Houses becoming none House, with left grief.”

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8. “Love and freedom don’t coexist.”

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

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10. “I love a little gall on gall.”

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11. “Sextus gave her turbo cancer.”

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12. “If you do not find yourself a galaxy, it is not so bad to find yourself a star.”

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

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14. “You got the face of a rat and the body of a dead person.”

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15. “Things are, frankly, going to be antonyms of fine.”

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16. “Well, I tried, and therefore no one should criticize me.”

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

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18. “Harrow, I can’t keep my promise, because the entire point of me is you. You get that, right? That’s what cavaliers sign up for. There is no me without you. One flesh, one end.”

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19. “Cam,” Palamedes said. “Go loud.”

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20. “Death first to vultures and scavangers.”

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21. “I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it.”

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22. “Oh my God, you’re black vestals – Oh my God, you’re the Ninth cav!”

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23. “Ah, in the end, all of us are people... who need to use the bathroom.”

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24. “Bones are mediocre.”

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

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26. “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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27. “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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28. “Life is too short and love is too long.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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37. “You can’t take loved away.”

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38. “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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39. “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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40. “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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41. “She said, “What is this internet?” And he said, “See, I did make a utopia.”

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42. “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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43. “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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44. “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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45. “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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46. “Someday I’ll marry that girl,” she said aloud. “It might be good for her.” And: “Probably not, though.”

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

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

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