Top 200 Samantha Shannon Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.”

— Samantha Shannon

52. “In the tales, she has no name, like too many women in stories of old.”

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53. “My mother told me we are all like roses. I always thought it means that we opened our petals, took our true form, and gradually withered. But perhaps we never stop growing. If women are flowers, we are not roses, but day’s eyes – blooming not once, but over and over, each time the light touches us.”

— Samantha Shannon

54. “We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.”

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55. “My evening star. If the sun burned out tomorrow, your flame would light the world.”

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56. “I will endure, my midnight sun. I will teach my heart to beat again.”

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57. “Some people need to call others evil, so they can seem pure and righteous in comparison, or to purge contempt they hold in secret for themselves.”

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58. “I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.”

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59. “The wonderful thing about living in a morally bankrupt world is that every human being can be bought in one way or another. Everyone accepts a currency. Money, mercy, the illusion of power – there are always ways to purchase loyalty.”

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60. “That one day, you will forgive yourself. You are in the spring of your life, child, and have much to learn about this world. Do not deny yourself the privilege of living.”

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61. “London – beautiful, immortal London – has never been a ‘city’ in the simplest sense of the word. It was, and is, a living, breathing thing, a stone leviathan that harbours secrets underneath its scales. It guards them covetously, hiding them deep within its body; only the mad or the worthy can find them.”

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62. “Nikeya had worn more faces than Dumai could count, but never all at once. Her features were not a mask now, but pure embroidery, made up of the finest stitches of emotion: surprise, tenderness, sorrow, too many shades and myriads of feeling to be picked apart.”

— Samantha Shannon

63. “Loose tongues oft lead to loose necks.”

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64. “Cloud steamed from its scales – scales of moonstone, so bright they seemed to glow from within. A crust of gem-like droplets glistened on each one. Each eye was a burning star, and each horn was quicksilver, agleam under the pallid moon.”

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65. “I realized, that she had been spoon-fed a story from the day she was born. She had been taught no other way to be. And yet, I saw that despite everything, some part of her was self-made. This part, small as it appeared at first, was forged in the fire of her own strength, and resisted her cage. And I understood... that this part was made of steel. The part who she truly was.”

— Samantha Shannon

66. “I think you a self-righteous fool whose head is harder than a rock. And I would not change you for the world.”

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67. “Lluvia con sol. Un buen augurio.”

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68. “All the world is a cage in a young girl’s eyes.”

— Samantha Shannon

69. “Just because something has always been done does not mean that it ought to be done.”

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70. “All stories grow from a seed of truth,’ Truyde said. ‘They are knowledge after figuration.”

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71. “Love and fear do strange things to our souls. The dream they bring, those dreams that leave us drenched in salt water and gasping for breath as if we might die – those, we call unquiet dreams. And only scent of rise can avert them.”

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72. “Ne cherche pas le soleil de minuit sur terre, car il est en toi.”

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73. “When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own.”

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74. “Money. The dark obsession of the human race.”

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75. “Black doves and white crows flew to her, for she was mother to the outcasts.”

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76. “My shivers weren’t just from the cold.”

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77. “But when the heart grows too full, it overflows. And mine, inevitably, overflows on to a page.”

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78. “The stranger came out of the sea like a water ghost, barefoot and wearing the scars of his journey.”

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79. “All will go to plan, Paige. You should not give up hope.” He looked at the stage. “Hope is the one thing that might still save us all.” I followed his gaze. The bell jar and the lifeless flowers stood on a covered plinth. “Hope for what?” “Change.”

— Samantha Shannon

80. “We call these decadal harvests Bone Seasons. This is Bone Season XX.”

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81. “Yes, and I suppose she wore a red gown for her meeting with the Saint. I suppose she was as clean as a licked kitten and smelled of rosemary.” When Kit grimaced, Melaugo said, “You have not seen death, my lord. You have only seen the mask we put on it.”

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82. “There is courage, I think, in open-mindedness, and thinking for oneself.”

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83. “Some truths are safest buried. Some castles best kept in the sky. There’s promise in tales that are yet to be spoken.”

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84. “Who can break you now, Black Moth, now there is nothing left to break?”

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85. “We could start by not scorning one another for our beliefs, or lack of them.”

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86. “Change a word or two, even a single letter, and you change the entire story.”

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87. “He had fallen for the trick – a trick that should have fooled no one – because he had expected weakness.”

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88. “But Ead called fire her friend, and she would plunge into the furnace for Sabran Berethnet, for just one night with her. Let them come with their swords and their torches.”

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89. “Isn’t it wonderful, how words and paper can embroil us so? We are witnessing a miracle, dear heart.”

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90. “Sea sisters, Susa had called them once. Two pearls formed in the same oyster.”

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91. “Even the most gifted poets had never been able to capture the vastness of the forest, for none had laid eyes on its depths: its endless trees, their unthinkable heights, the layers built up over thousands of centuries.”

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92. “I am no man’s weapon,’ Dumai said, nettled.”

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93. “It was a strange place to touch someone, the wrist. The skin that knew the patterns of the heart.”

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94. “Todas las historias nacen de una semilla de verdad.”

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95. “His dreamscape sent a tongue of fire across my flowers.”

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96. “Soon enough, the fine grains of his sanity would begin to course between his fingers.”

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97. “I couldn’t stop. I’d never felt anything like this in my life – this rising in my chest, this need to touch.”

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98. “Sabran laughed. A rare sound. Like a vein of gold hidden in rock, loathe to show itself.”

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99. “You may not believe it, but it is what I desire the most in the world. This place has afflicted me with a terrible wanderlust. I long for the fire, for the sights you have seen. Yet here I am, two hundred years after I arrived. Still a prisoner, though I masquerade as a king.”

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100. “And I waited for the sun to rise – as it always had, like a song from the night.”

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