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“I could hate you, but it would kill me, and that is not how I am dying for you.”
― Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers

“But Gideon was experiencing one powerful emotion: being sick of everyone's shit. She unsheathed her sword. She slid her gauntlet over her hand, and tightened the wrist straps with her teeth. And she looked over her shoulder at Harrowhark, who was apparently breaking out of a blue funk to experience her own dominant emotion of "oh no, not again." Gideon silently willed her necromancer to put her knucklebones where her mouth was and, for the first time in her life - for the first real time - do what Gideon needed her to do.

And Harrowhark rose to the occasion like an evening star.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Because you choose sides in war and I chose the one that makes me feel human, and this I will not apologize for.”
― Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers

“I do not feel it. I watch the ink bloom across my skin, guided by her careful hand, watch the little line form between her brows as she concentrates, and the others dancing around us, and the night leaned up against a window, and please remember it like this, just like this.
The good part.
This part is so fucking good.”
― Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers