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“I have come back home to kill the Emperor and burn his Houses. And Gideon the Ninth…”
She walked toward Gideon, and she raised her sword. She smiled.
“This begins with you.”

"Whatever happened to one flesh, one end?”

“Have you two been paired a very long time?”

She still didn’t understand what she was meant to do or think or say: what duty really meant, between a cavalier and a necromancer, between a necromancer and a cavalier.

“It feels like forever,” she said honestly.
Gideon slipped her dark-tinted glasses out of her pocket and slid them on, and she felt better for it. “Come on. Let’s go.”

“Yes, tomorrow morning after at least eight hours’ sleep,” Gideon suggested without hope.

“An admirable attempt at comedy in these trying times,” said Harrowhark. “Let’s go.”

“Harrow sprinted to kneel alongside the tangle of wet laundry at the bottom of the ladder.
It wasn’t wet laundry. It was two people”

Act 3 time baby

This book is delusional

“Gideon had always known that this would be how she went: gangbanged to death by skeletons. ”