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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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“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
“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
“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.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon 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
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