Top 200 Samantha Shannon Quotes (2025 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.”

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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.”

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54. “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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55. “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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56. “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.”

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

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

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59. “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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60. “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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61. “I will always keep you safe.”

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

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

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64. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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74. “Sabran drew back to look at her. Ead caught a glimpse of her face in the candlelight – brow smooth, eyes dark and resolute – before they came together again, and the kiss was hot and new and world-forming, the flare of starbirth on their lips.”

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75. “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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76. “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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77. “All stories grow from a seed of truth,’ Truyde said. ‘They are knowledge after figuration.”

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

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

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

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

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

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83. “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.”

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

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85. “Un momento, una eternidad, o algo intermedio-.”

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86. “What if magic is just a word for power beyond our understanding, like the gods possess?”

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87. “Piety can turn the power-hungry into monsters,’ Ead said. ‘They can twist any teaching to justify their actions.”

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

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

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90. “You know I take the Knight of Courage as my patron. There is courage, I think, in open-mindedness, and thinking for oneself. If you are a witch, then perhaps witches are not so wicked after all.”

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

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

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

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95. “Can you imagine what that’s like – to be seen only for the life you could make, not the life you already possess?”

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96. “Sabran had been dealt a cruel hand. Her Lady of the Bedchamber had died while she slept, her companion in her arms, her mother before her eyes. Her daughter had never drawn breath. Her father – if he had been her father at all – had perished in Yscalin, beyond her reach. Loss had dogged her all her life. Little wonder she was holding on so tightly.”

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97. “La luna era un ojo a medio cerrar y el barco flotaba en un agua tan negra como sus pensamientos.”

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98. “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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99. “She was adamant that any organisation that labelled one group of people as evil would eventually do the same to others. That to treat any one person as less than human was to cheapen the very substance of humanity.”

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100. “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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