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I recognize the irony of writing a book review of a book critic whose work is of such a high caliber, but I loved this book and wanted to mark my favorites.Hanya’s Boys – This is one of my favorite essays of all time, and is I believe how I first ...more "
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Meaningless at the level of empire is what I mean by meaningless.➽Follow me on Substack at ellexamines.substack.com
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“But Harrowhark—Harrow, who was two hundred dead children; Harrow, who loved something that had not been alive for ten thousand years—Harrowhark Nonagesimus had always so badly wanted to live. She had cost too much to die.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow 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
“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
“Harrow laughed. It was the first time she had ever heard Harrow really laugh. It was a rather weak and tired sound.
"Gideon the Ninth, first flower of my House," she said hoarsely, "you are the greatest cavalier we have ever produced. You are our triumph, The best of all of us. It has been my privilege to be your necromancer.”
― Gideon the Ninth
"Gideon the Ninth, first flower of my House," she said hoarsely, "you are the greatest cavalier we have ever produced. You are our triumph, The best of all of us. It has been my privilege to be your necromancer.”
― Gideon the Ninth
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