Top 200 Samantha Shannon Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Dumai said you were once called a flower grown for court. I do not see that as an insult, but an endorsement. A flower in a world of ash is proof that life endures.”

— Samantha Shannon

102. “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.”

— Samantha Shannon

103. “Their breaths were hushed, held in anticipation of a knock on the door, a key in the lock, a torch to bare their union. It would light a flame of scandal, and the fire would rise untill it scorched them both. But Ead called fire her friend, and she would plunge into the furnace for Sabran Berthnet, for just one night with her. Let them come with their swords and their torches. Let them come.”

— Samantha Shannon

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

— Samantha Shannon

105. “Our lifelines will meet only when the aether sees fit. That may not be often. It can never to always.”

— Samantha Shannon

106. “Glorian the First had drunk from a poisoned cup of wine.”

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107. “Desire had been a madness in her, grounded by a love that had filled her like breath – as if it had always been meant, written on her soul when it was just a seed.”

— Samantha Shannon

108. “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.”

— Samantha Shannon

109. “His voice was a shadow. “It roots me again. You remind me what it is to have a home.”

— Samantha Shannon

110. “In darkness, we are naked. Our truest selves. Night is when fear comes to us at its fullest, when we have no way to fight it.”

— Samantha Shannon

111. “You are not an executioner, Paige Mahoney.”

— Samantha Shannon

112. “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.”

— Samantha Shannon

113. “Seiiki had a scent to it. The perfume of the heartwood in the trees, unlocked by rain, and the green on every leaf.”

— Samantha Shannon

114. “La lealtad es el mejor de los regalos.”

— Samantha Shannon

115. “They raise us to be soft as silk, distract us with luxury and wealth beyond measure, so we never rock the boat that carries us. They expect us to be so bored by our power that we let them do the ruling in our stead. Behind every throne is a masked servant who seeks only to make a puppet of the one who sits on it.”

— Samantha Shannon

116. “Elder Vara had managed, of course. The world could end and he would find a way to keep on reading.”

— Samantha Shannon

117. “A woman is more than a womb to be seeded.”

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118. “Time became shapeless and strange.”

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119. “I imagined, too. And so imagination became my nemesis; my mind created monsters out of nothing.”

— Samantha Shannon

120. “Even a hawk cannot see the back of its own head.”

— Samantha Shannon

121. “He was capable of kindness, but he wasn’t kind. He could act like he cared, but it would always be an act.”

— Samantha Shannon

122. “But I missed talking to him. I missed just being near him. I wanted him – but what I wanted might be an illusion.”

— Samantha Shannon

123. “I am no green child to believe what I am told without proof.”

— Samantha Shannon

124. “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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125. “Just going outside put me at risk of winding up dead or captured. If I let that daunt me, I’d never do anything.”

— Samantha Shannon

126. “You wear so much armour by daylight that, by night, you can carry it no longer. By night, you are only flesh. And even flesh of a queen is prone to fear.”

— Samantha Shannon

127. “I felt the thick beat of him. His rhythm. My rhythm.”

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128. “Each of her words was the skip of a stone across a lake, forming ripples of emotion. The Queen of Inys could not cast illusions, but her voice and bearing on this night had turned her into an enchantress.”

— Samantha Shannon

129. “She’d known I was coming, known what I was after, and she’d only started to speak English after seeing me. She was one of them. The scarred ones.”

— Samantha Shannon

130. “My heart knows your song, as yours knows mine.”

— Samantha Shannon

131. “Damn you to the Womb of Fire.′ Sigoso smiled, ‘I am there,’ he said, ’and it is paradise.”

— Samantha Shannon

132. “History may record the end of my line as a tragedy,” the Grand Empress said, “but a house that crushes its own daughters beneath its foundations – that is no house at all. Better it burns with the rest. A different world must be drawn from the ashes.”

— Samantha Shannon

133. “And Wulf remembered he was flesh. He was skin papered on sinew, wrapped around bone, sprouting nails and teeth and hair, and all of it could be consumed.”

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134. “Art is not one great act of creation, but many small ones. When you read one of my poems, you fail to see the weeks of careful work it took me to build it – the thinking, the scratched-out words, the pages I burned in disgust. All you see, in the end, is what I want you to see.”

— Samantha Shannon

135. “Have we met? Don’t tell me. You’re plainly a fool, and I have no interest in befriending fools.”

— Samantha Shannon

136. “We sat with our arms around each other, holding too tightly and not tightly enough.”

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137. “You can convince yourself that you are nothing like me. Tell yourself that you are the black to my white, the queen that stood on the right side of the board. But one day, you will be faced with a choice, as we all are. One day you will have to choose between your own desires, your own darkest impulses, and what you know to be right... and it will harden you. You will understand that all of us are devils in the skins of men. You will become the monster that lives inside us all.”

— Samantha Shannon

138. “Normal’ and ‘natural’ were the biggest lies we’d ever created. We humans with our little minds. And maybe being normal wouldn’t suit me.”

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139. “Fire it was, purposefully wrought – fire as makes a blade, for slaughter. Its eyes seethed with flame, not good nor evil, the sanctarian read in her mind, but also that which makes a wyrm, that is, its cunning, and its malice.”

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140. “A picture came, unbidden, of a stranger crushing into her. Her body taken over, laden, stretching and filling beyond her control, growing a seed that unfurled in the darkness. She knew that bringing it into the light would rip a deep scar through her mind, even if she recovered in the body. It would all pull so hard on her line that it broke her, leaving her to sink. She had known for many years that she would not do it by choice.”

— Samantha Shannon

141. “Within this impossible sea, every star, every constellation, every fold and spiral of the cosmos was reflected. As if there were two firmaments, and their ship was a ghost ship, adrift between worlds. The sea had turned itself to glass, so the heavens might finally look upon themselves.”

— Samantha Shannon

142. “The dragons watched her. It was said they could see the deepest secrets of a soul, for human beings were made of water, and all water was theirs.”

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143. “The only way I could think to honor you was by continuing to live.”

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144. “Life, for all its wonders, is rather flimsy in the end.”

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145. “Pieter was depressed again. Being dead sometimes got to him.”

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146. “Dices que deseas la verdad, pero la verdad es un tejido de muchos hilos.”

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147. “Eadaz,’ Aralaq said. ‘Yes?’ ‘Do not follow stupid birds into dark places again.”

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148. “The loneliness ached most on summer nights.”

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149. “No soy tu reina, pero soy tuya.”

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150. “With the right reasons, at the right moment, even the most beaten and broken of people could rise up and reclaim themselves.”

— Samantha Shannon