Moon > Moon's Quotes

“Camilla and Palamedes were loved by Nona, said Paul. Pyrrha was loved by Nona. It’s finished, it’s done. You can’t take loved away.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“I love a little gall on gall.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“Murder isn’t our way. Some impure families will split a man from sternum to scrotum to grant a single pure wish. Once, we did too. Our ancestors believed in that sort of blood. It took twenty-five of them to move this house.”
― Liselle Sambury, Blood Like Magic

“It’s busy, but not in that way where everyone is rushing and angry. It’s just alive with people going about their business.”
― Liselle Sambury, Blood Like Magic

“Ever since I was little, cooking has been my refuge. As much of a comfort as eating. It’s also the only thing I’ve ever been good at. And not once has anyone, even Keis, ever asked if it’s what I actually want for a future. I don’t know if they think it’s what I want.”
― Liselle Sambury, Blood Like Magic

“If you need to rely on powers to fuel your talent, you need to face the fact that you don’t have any.”
― Liselle Sambury, Blood Like Magic

“Food is a powerful thing in relationships. It shows that they matter to you and warms the heart.” Her words sound normal, but her voice is even sharper than Granny’s. “But does your ancestor care about that? Apparently not.”
― Liselle Sambury, Blood Like Magic

“From the start of this, Mama Jova has wanted me to take control of my future and choices. And this whole time I’ve believed that I would make the wrong choice. That’s how it’s been with everything in my life. Every decision was another chance to mess up.”
― Liselle Sambury, Blood Like Magic

“Sometimes,” she says, looking back at me, “I think you’re the strongest person in this family, Voya. And the most hacked thing about it is that we have never supported you enough for you to feel that way about yourself.”
― Liselle Sambury, Blood Like Magic

“One flesh, one end, bitch.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it”
― Tamsyn Muir, 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.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Life is too short and love is too long.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“Her adept said: "I'll keep it off you. Nav, show them what the Ninth House does."

Gideon lifted her sword. The construct worked itself free of its last confines of masonry and rotten wood and heaved before them, flexing itself like a butterfly.

"We do bones, motherfucker," she said.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“While we were developing common sense, she studied the blade.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Fuck one flesh, one end, Harrow. I already gave my flesh to you, and I already gave you my end. I gave you my sword. I gave you myself. I did it while knowing I’d do it all again, without hesitation, because all I ever wanted you to do was eat me.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“You hating me always meant more than anyone else in this hot and stupid universe loving me. At least I’d had your full attention.”
― Tamsyn Muir

“Too many words,” said Gideon confidentially. “How about these: One flesh, one end, bitch.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Harrow said, “But you're God.”
And God said, “And I am not enough.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“So I’m shut in here—walled in, really—to prevent the Nine Houses becoming none House, with left grief.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“So Alecto, wearied of talking, kneeled upon the rock and offered up the sword to her, and placed the child’s hand upon the blade, so that it received also the red blood of the child. This made the child exceeding faint, but it did not swoon of weariness.

Which strength pleased Alecto, who said: Notwithstanding, I offer you my service.

To which a voice on the opposite side of the shore was raised, exceeding wroth, and Alecto heard it shout in a very great shout: Get in line, thou big slut.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“Two is for discipline, heedless of trial;
Three for the gleam of a jewel or a smile;
Four for fidelity, facing ahead;
Five for tradition and debts to the dead;
Six for the truth over solace in lies;
Seven for beauty that blossoms and dies;
Eight for salvation no matter the cost;
Nine for the Tomb, and for all that was lost.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“I sat with that for a long time. I thought of every person I had met, wondering how many of them had wolves inside them and just had never pulled them out. Or perhaps more horrible: how many of them, in a moment of fear, reached inside themselves for something to save them, and came up empty.”
― Rose Szabo, What Big Teeth

“I’ve been alone for so long that I can’t remember what it feels like to belong.”
― Rose Szabo, What Big Teeth

“My love is a haunted house, a ghost possessing his own body, a fire that burns itself alive. A light almost too bright to look at, but I forced myself to look as long as I could.”
― Rose Szabo, What Big Teeth

“JADE: but it makes me sad to think i would act like this
JADESPRITE: act like what?
JADE: i would like to think that even if i was sad and scared, if i was put in a position where everyone depended on me, i could put all those feelings aside and do whats right!
JADESPRITE: but i dont know whats right
JADE: yes you do!
JADE: even though you dont want to be, youre here now, and there are still people who need you
JADE: there is still something worth fighting for!”
― Andrew Hussie, Homestuck

“The reason magical girls exist is because they needed their power the most. In other words, before a magical girl awakens her powers, she’s the weakest person in the world.”
― Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

“the first battle a magical girl must fight is the fight to save herself.”
― Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

“When is the proper age to shed the moniker 'girl'? Do you stop being one with your first period? Are you an adult once you grow taller than 160 centimeters? When lots of adults don't reach that height anyway? And is it not true that all of our girlhoods are different, not just in terms of physical growth, but in the growth of our hearts and minds?”
― Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

“What did it mean to be nice and capable? Did it mean I couldn’t say no to things?”
― Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires