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After a ship arrives requesting the immediate presence of a new ambassador, Mahit Dzmare is sent from Lsel to the capital of Teixcalaan, the interstellar empire on their doorstep – to discover the old ambassador Yksandr is dead under suspicious circu
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“He urged again, “Thoughts?” Gideon said, “Did you know that if you put the first three letters of your last name with the first three letters of your first name, you get ‘Sex Pal’?”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
“What do Marta the Second, Naberius the Third, Jeannemary the Fourth, Magnus the Fifth, Camilla the Sixth, Protesilaus the Seventh, Colum the Eighth, and Gideon the Ninth all have in common?” You could have heard a hair flutter to the floor. Everyone stared, poker-faced, in the thick ensuing silence. Magnus looked pleased with himself. “The same middle name,” he said.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon 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.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
“The clan can claim everything I have —my time, my blood and sweat, my life and jade—but it can’t have my wife. She’s a stone-eye. She’s the one thing in the world that jade can’t touch.”
― Jade War
― Jade War
“You apologise to me?” she bellowed. “You apologise to me now? You say that you’re sorry when I have spent my life destroying you? You are my whipping girl! I hurt you because it was a relief! I exist because my parents killed everyone and relegated you to a life of abject misery, and they would have killed you too and not given it a second’s goddamned thought! 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?”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
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