#cestmoi

[69shadesofgray]

sup 😎

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[crouchabout]

"my whole life"

“I gave her my whole life,” said Gideon, and unsheathed her blade.

Chapter 2, Gideon the Ninth

“If I became a Lyctor,” she said meditatively, “and renewed my House—and made it great again, and greater than it ever was, and justified its existence in the eyes of God the Emperor—if I made my whole life a monument to those who died to ensure that I would live and live powerfully…” Gideon waited. “Of course I wouldn’t be worth it,” Harrow said scornfully.

Chapter 31, Gideon the Ninth

Harrowhark, I gave you my whole life and you didn’t even want it.

Chapter 44, Harrow the Ninth

But my whole life and death had come crashing down around me… I was nothing but a chess move in a thousand-year game.

Chapter 52, Harrow the Ninth

“Palamedes, yes,” she said. “My whole life, yes. Yes forever, yes. Life is too short and love is too long.”

Chapter 28, Nona the Ninth

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[intimmissimi]

[paleolithique]

i've melted

[calvin-evans-littul-white-shorts]

When Mark Twain said," Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." And when Penelope Fitzgerald said, "Understanding makes the mind lazy"

[divineglo]