izzy’s Reviews > Gideon the Ninth > Status Update

“The Lord do so and so to me, and add more also, if aught but death part me and thee. See you on the flip side, sugarlips.”

as it turns out, reading a book four times does not mean you will eventually not cry at the ending!

“I haven’t killed Naberius Tern. I ate Naberius Tern.”

womens wrongs or whatever but who even cares about babs

FOURTH READ AND I AM REALIZING SOMETHING GODDAMN! what WAS teacher the mould for??? where did you put the people JOHN!

“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.”

EVERY FUCKING TIME!

“I put to you before everyone here—that this man was dead before you arrived, by shuttle at the First House, and appeared alive only through deep flesh magic.”
Among the collective mutters, Ianthe Tridentarius’s acid drawl was the loudest: “Well, this is the only interesting thing she’s ever done.”

i want ianthe’s canaan house adventures!!! i know that shit was wild! also pool time :)

“If you want to know what I think… I think that you’re a cavalier worthy of a Lyctor. I want to see that, what you’d become. I wonder if the Reverend Daughter even knows what she has in you?”

“Don’t. It’s very easy to die, Gideon the Ninth… you just let it happen. It’s so much worse when it doesn’t. But come on, chicken. Not right now, and not yet.”

god man the LAYERS of hindsight sadness in the avulsion scene

“The expression on her face was completely alien. Harrowhark Nonagesimus was looking at her with unalloyed admiration.

“But for the love of the Emperor, Griddle,” she said gruffly, “you are something else with that sword.”

smiles

“Ninth cavs are necro suitcases. Who’re you?”

hilarious that everyone in the first 1/3rd of the book are like where the fuck did that amish cult get a hot beefcake for a cavalier?

“And then the whole idea became beautiful. The moment Gideon turned her back on it, the House would die. The moment Gideon walked away, it would all disappear like an impossibly bad dream.”

lines that become brutally sad after nona the ninth