Maggie The Witch > Maggie The Witch's Quotes

“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.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“I love a little gall on gall.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“You remember how the fuck-off great aunts always used to say, Suffer and learn?

If they were right Nonagesimus, how much more can we take until you and me achieve omniscience?”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“I died knowing you'd hate me for dying; but Nonagesimus, 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

“As I dithered, Pyrrha sandblasted me with the calm, "Your mother would've picked the bullet. "
"Yes, well, jail for Mother, " I said.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“THE ONLY THING OUR CIVILISATION CAN LEARN FROM YOURS IS THAT WHEN OUR BACKS ARE TO THE WALL AND OUR TOWERS ARE FALLING ALL AROUND US AND WE ARE WATCHING OURSELVES BURN
WE RARELY BECOME HEROES.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“I might lie down and see if this fixes itself,” I suggested.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“Oh, we’ll still hate each other, my dear, we have hated each other too long and too passionately to stop… but my bones will rest easy next to your bones.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“But when she was scared, she was a child again, and she was more scared of being a child again than anything else in her life.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“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.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“Stay here,' I said.
'Get fucked,' she said thickly. 'I absolutely did not become the eighth saint to serve the King Undying so Gideon Nav could play hero for me.'
'Why did you ascend to be a Lyctor?'
'Ultimate power - and posters of my face.'
Fair.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“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

“Don't start the 'I was toying with her, mwa ha ha' noise, because I won't believe it. Your plan backfired, Tridentarius. You've got the sickness. I know the signs of Nonagesimitis. You were all lined up for a big hot injection of vitamin H.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“probably because I am a good girl and you are an evil nun,”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“Your tolerance for man-eating magma fish would have been tested sorely by anyone who was not God. His divinity earned God, you thought, about sixty more seconds.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“But when I saw that tall hot glass of skank”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“Someday I'll die and get buried in the ground and you can take it up with me then,' said Harrow, and found, after all, that she was not really speaking to them. 'Until then - I am afraid that I have to live.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“Not even one of the Emperor’s fists and gestures could give Harrowhark Nonagesimus a sexy makeover. Sometimes I think you look like a twig’s funeral.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“Your only settings were power-vomit and murder”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“The letter was wrapped around a black, folded-up bunch of angles: smoked glass, thin black frames, mirrored lenses. A little bend in one arm, but otherwise - you'd kept my sunglasses.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“After a brief pause, he said: 'Harrow, please don't be in such a hurry to die.'
'Do not underestimate me, Teacher,' you said. 'I have always lived.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“I didn’t think this was the time for dirty talk, but I can roll with it,” she said. “Choke me, Daddy.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“They only intervened if it looked like you might choke to death on your own vomit, a mercy that you always vaguely thought a shame.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“There is no such thing as forgiveness, Mercy. There is only bloody truth and blessed ignorance.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“- What is the tragedy of time?
- Time can render one impotent beyond meaning.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth