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“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.”