“We’re all in this together,” she said, which was a typically Fifth assumption. The Ninth didn’t think anyone was in anything together, or if they were, they all had to disperse as soon as humanly possible to avoid splash damage.

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Hermetic quote Muir Harrow the Ninth- in this together assumption disperse avoid splash damage

Consider also:

  1. “if you bother to remember anything from my ramblings, please remember this: once you turn your back on something, you have no more right to act as though you own it.”
  2. “Don’t look at her blood, or lick her bones, or do any of the shit necromancers lie and say they don’t do the moment two of them get nasty.”
  3. “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.”