Unexpectedly, this did not kill her; and what did not kill her made her curious.

Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth Harrow the Ninth [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]

Hermetic quote Muir Harrow the Ninth what did not kill her made her curious

Consider also:

  1. “She had found a nasty, forbidden little book in the great Ninth repositories of nasty, forbidden little books, and all the Houses would have had a collective aneurysm if they knew she’d even read it.”
  2. “Act accordingly, to Gideon, meant being secret and abstruse and super obsessed with tomes.”
  3. “Kill them!” the queen cried. “Kill them all. Then go back into their world and kill their mother. Kill all their friends and their friends’ families. Burn down their homes. Salt their fields.” There was a maniacal look in the bee queen’s eyes, but I suppose it didn’t much matter. Crazy or not, she was the queen and there was nothing we could do to stop her
  4. “I may dislike this quality in him so much that I am willing to kill him as the only cure; and he is equally right to kill me if he dislikes the color of my necktie. How many people were killed because they wanted to spell ‘Homoousios,’ ‘Homoiousios’ with the iota?”
  5. Can’t Kill Us