Top 200 Samantha Shannon Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.”

— Samantha Shannon

2. “Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.”

— Samantha Shannon

3. “I do not know what I can do for this world but I will not let any harm come to you.”

— Samantha Shannon

4. “No woman should be made to fear that she was not enough.”

— Samantha Shannon

5. “There are certain things in life that you never forget. Things that dig deep, things that nest in the hadal zone.”

— Samantha Shannon

6. “They’d branded me like some kind of animal. Lower than an animal. A number.”

— Samantha Shannon

7. “I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkiens legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.”

— Samantha Shannon

8. “I would live alone for fifty years to have one day with you.”

— Samantha Shannon

9. “To be kin to a dragon you must not only have a soul of water. You must have the blood of the sea, and the sea is not always pure. It is not any one thing. There is darkness in it, and danger, and cruelty.”

— Samantha Shannon

10. “I am not your queen, but I am yours.”

— Samantha Shannon

11. “Not all of us know what we are. Some of us die without ever knowing. Some of us know, and never get caught. But we’re out there. Trust me.”

— Samantha Shannon

12. “Her feelings had come like a flower on a tree. A bud, gently forming – and just like that, an undying blossom.”

— Samantha Shannon

13. “Madness is a matter of perspective, little dreamer.”

— Samantha Shannon

14. “Night is when fear comes to us at its fullest, when we have no way to fight it. It will do everything it can to seep inside you. Sometimes it may succeed – but never think that you are the night.”

— Samantha Shannon

15. “My heart knows your song, as yours knows mine. And I will always come back to you.”

— Samantha Shannon

16. “Reading,′ Ead said lightly. ‘A dangerous pastime.”

— Samantha Shannon

17. “Hush, my child, the wind is rising. Even the birds are quiet. Stop your tears. The fire-breathers will hear us. Sleep now, sleep, or you will see them coming. Hold on to me and close your eyes.”

— Samantha Shannon

18. “The guards came after her. They hunted a ghost, for Ead Duryan was no more.”

— Samantha Shannon

19. “Balance is necessary in all things.”

— Samantha Shannon

20. “Run, little dreamer.”

— Samantha Shannon

21. “I do not pity you. But I do know what it feels like. To be wanted only for what you are.”

— Samantha Shannon

22. “Ead knew the scent of a secret. She wore it like a perfume.”

— Samantha Shannon

23. “Ghosts were the voices the dead left behind. Echoes of a soul taken too soon.”

— Samantha Shannon

24. “A queen should learn the ways of watching. Like a falcon, she waits for her moment to strike. She also knows when she need not strike at all – when her shadow, her presence, is more than enough.”

— Samantha Shannon

25. “Truth looks different in every lens.”

— Samantha Shannon

26. “It is a beautiful mask, but all masks fall. In the end.”

— Samantha Shannon

27. “Death came for them like a desert wind.”

— Samantha Shannon

28. “Jokes are the declarations of fools.”

— Samantha Shannon

29. “No life lived is lost.”

— Samantha Shannon

30. “You seem to attract injuries in the manner that a flower attracts bees.”

— Samantha Shannon

31. “The only way to survive is to believe you always will.”

— Samantha Shannon

32. “Death, as it turned out, had wings.”

— Samantha Shannon

33. “Never allow yourself to believe you should be silent.”

— Samantha Shannon

34. “What I will tell you is that you cannot force yourself to mourn. Sometimes, the best way to honour the dead is to simply keep living.”

— Samantha Shannon

35. “That is the hardest part. Knowing that you embody a realm, he whispered. As her womb tided, so did all of Inys. That your eyes are its vigilance; your stomach, its strength; your heart, its shield; your flesh, its future.”

— Samantha Shannon

36. “Because I don’t know whether honesty is better than happiness. Do we sacrifice honesty in order to be happy?”

— Samantha Shannon

37. “Perhaps I feel safest when I think of nothing.”

— Samantha Shannon

38. “We like to think we’re brave, but in the end, we’re only human.”

— Samantha Shannon

39. “Margret,” he said, “you are my child. I forgave you all your sins on the first day of your life.”

— Samantha Shannon

40. “Let them come with their swords and their torches. Let them come.”

— Samantha Shannon

41. “I don’t know. I just want you with me. I had never said those words aloud. Now that I could taste my freedom I wanted him to share it with me. But he couldn’t change his life for me. And I couldn’t sacrifice my life to be with him.”

— Samantha Shannon

42. “I was born in 1991, and Harry Potter came out in 97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.”

— Samantha Shannon

43. “My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacant with whatever work life threw at me. My father, as usual, was wrong.”

— Samantha Shannon

44. “Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can’t get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.”

— Samantha Shannon

45. “I would never see him again. But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one thing: I did trust him. Now I had only to trust in myself.”

— Samantha Shannon

46. “There was no normal. There never had been. “Normal” and “natural” were the biggest lies we’d ever created.”

— Samantha Shannon

47. “I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.”

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48. “I like to imagine there were more of us in the beginning. Not many, I suppose. But more than there are now.”

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49. “I’m often daydreaming, and it’s because I’ve always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.”

— Samantha Shannon

50. “I looked at him and he looked at me. A moment. A choice. My choice. His choice.”

— Samantha Shannon