“Oh, damn, Nonagesimus, don't cry, we can't fight her if you're crying.”
Harrow said, with some difficulty, “I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it.”
“Yes you can, it's just less great and less hot,” said Gideon.
“Is it going to be explicitly romantic? Is it a romantic trajectory by the end of the books? Who knows? I mean, we’re two books in and they have not done so much as hold hands. Maybe I’m gonna sink that battleship like crazy.”