“Opposite, Dulcinea murmured to Abigail: “I think that is a perfect shame.” “Thank you. We’re over it; it simply wasn’t in our cards,” the necromancer said, a bit bracingly. “My younger brother’s the next in line. He’ll do well. It gives me more time to collate the manuscript, which I’ve been married to longer than I have to Magnus.” - Gideon The Ninth, p. 173
“You had not sold the marrow of your soul for stolen eyes and a half-hearted kindness. What dismantled you - you bereft idiot - was not even the God who made the Ninth House, the Emperor All-Giving, the Kindly Prince; your end appeared in the form of a grown adult telling you that they may have liked you for their own.” - Harrow The Ninth, p. 347
