Цитаты из книги Nona the Ninth

“Don’t worry, kiddie,” she said tiredly. “I’ll keep loving you—my problem is I don’t know how to stop. And, you know … who you are … were … you’re capable of more than you think, right now. I liked you. He liked you—Gideon liked you. My necromancer and I always liked you … and hey, what’s like except a love that hasn’t been invited indoors?”

“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. We loved you too. Palamedes and Camilla loved you.”

Don’t care about what people say … care about what people do. People say all kinds of things because it’s so easy to open your mouth and make words come out. It’s the doing that shows you what they are, and what they feel.

"Cam, responsibility just means you can't ever do anything you think is really important."

"Yes," said Cam simply.

"Being unexpectedly loved is so wonderful or terrible, isn't it?"

"<...> Звучит как начало анекдота, да? Двое учёных, инженер, детектив, адвокат и художник заходят в бар, чтобы помочь мне стать Богом."

That is how meat loves meat.

I want you lot to make that your motto. What we know is that we don’t know anything.

It felt so easy to be good when you were happy

Так легко быть хорошей, когда ты счастлива.

- У нас был интернет. Мы решили устроить стрим., - сказал он со вздохом. - Что такое интернет? - спросила она. И он сказал: - Видишь, я все-таки сделал утопию.

“Hah! Don’t come over all intelligence agent with me, you young fool. The Bureau’s not welcome in the House of the Ninth. Last one we had—thirty years back—we dropped off eleven hours from the prison with ten hours’ worth of air and told ’em to hurry up.”

But they weren’t only aggro about G—, they were aggro that a nuke might go off and kill a couple million people. I was like, Guys, it’s fine, they’re Australian.

“Who’s that?” said the corpse, not letting go of Palamedes’s wrist. She craned her neck to one side. “Oh, hey. Long time no drown. You’re the one who bragged about spading my mum.” “Anyone who spaded your mum would brag about it,” said Pyrrha.

When she did not laugh he said, “I can’t believe nobody’s ever going to laugh at my jokes again. I can’t believe it. It’s all gone, I’m the only one left. It’s just me and you and no more jokes.” She said, “I still love you.” And he laughed and said, “That was a good one.”

After a pause, he said: I mean, I had kind of done a huge crime. I’d turned several hundred animals inside out and made them into a big art installation and I hadn’t complied with the cops, but extenuating circumstances, okay? There were extenuating circumstances. It wasn’t my fault that turning several hundred animals inside out makes you look like the bad guy.

He said, Told M— that. Huge mistake. She was like, Oh my God, you’re drinking, aren’t you. You’re on amphetamines. You are on coke. You are on amphetamines and coke. I was all, Yeah … Coke Zero. She didn’t laugh. I laughed. He said, I guess I’ve always thought any pun was automatically funny.

“Oh, Cam, please, please. I’ve been so good lately. And when I haven’t been good it hasn’t been because I haven’t tried. Yesterday was awful. I need to know—I know it’ll help my memory. It’s like a deep need inside of me, it must be my real self wanting to know, right? So this is work, right? What does Palamedes find sexy?”

Camilla took up the clipboard and the pen and wrote, serene and tranquil, underlining something once—twice. “Strong work ethic,” she said eventually. “High test scores.”

“You’re only boobs, hair, and talk, Crown,” said the guard. “No,” said Crown. “I’m boobs and hair and talk and a hell of a sword hand.” “Did you think that sounded cool?” said the guard.

We always said, they want us, they have to come get us. We’re not getting separated. We’re not getting disappeared. Brave words. But stopping them was on me, you know? You’ve got two scientists and an engineer and a nun and a lawyer and a banker and a cop and an artist. That’s not a defence force, that’s a cop and six different kinds of nerd.