Top 200 Samantha Shannon Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Don’t you dare,” he said. “Don’t you dare let her see it. You are more than that. You are more than what she wants to do to you.”

— Samantha Shannon

152. “All of us have shadows in us,” he said. “I accept yours.” He placed a hand over her ring. “And I hope you will also accept mine.”

— Samantha Shannon

153. “But be mindful, Eadaz. Do not lose your focus. It is the Mother who compels you, not this Inysh queen.”

— Samantha Shannon

154. “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.”

— Samantha Shannon

155. “This was what my spirit longed to do, to wander in strange lands. It couldn’t stand being trapped in one body all the time. It had wanderlust.”

— Samantha Shannon

156. “Let us not think of the future this night. It is not yet dawn. We still have time for airy hopes.”

— Samantha Shannon

157. “You helped set me on this path, don’t you ever tell me how to walk it.”

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158. “The first touch of our lips behind crimson drapes. The touch that should have been impossible. A collision of worlds, born of chaos and breaking, that had somehow been quiet as a moth taking flight.”

— Samantha Shannon

159. “For as long as I had someone I could be myself with, I could bear to be someone else with him.”

— Samantha Shannon

160. “Remember that whoever and wherever you are, the realm of adventure will never be closed to you. You are your own shield.”

— Samantha Shannon

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

— Samantha Shannon

162. “Still, she imagined the loss of a loved one would hurt like an arrowhead lodged in the body. Life would grow and twine around it, but it would remain, always hurting.”

— Samantha Shannon

163. “I want my child to have a queendom left to rule. I want her to taste apples still crisp from the orchard. I want her to see the green of Inysh spring; to know the scent of wildflowers, the taste of bread, the sound of laughter. I do not want her life to end at her first breath, her voice strangled away by smoke.”

— Samantha Shannon

164. “You cannot kill death. What fire can scald the sun? Who can drown the ocean?”

— Samantha Shannon

165. “But Warden cared if I laughed. He cared if I lived or died. He had seen me as I was, not as the world saw me. And that meant something. It had to. Didn’t it?”

— Samantha Shannon

166. “It was customary for the vows to be taken at midnight, during the new moon, for it was in the darkest hours that companionship was needed most.”

— Samantha Shannon

167. “She excels because she trusts her skill. I suspect you fear that yours will slip between your fingers if you loosen your grip for even a moment... I always wanted to prove to myself that I was worthy of it... All I did was practice. I forgot how to possess a skill. Instead, the skill posses me. All of me.”

— Samantha Shannon

168. “What I know is less important than what the world sees,’ Kit said. ‘Allow me to indulge in a little allegory. Art. 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. Such is politics.”

— Samantha Shannon

169. “Cuando la historia no es capaz de arrojar luz sobre la verdad, el mito se crea la suya propia.”

— Samantha Shannon

170. “All her life, she had been too fortunate.”

— Samantha Shannon

171. “She was born to be a shadow, and all shadows had to do was walk behind.”

— Samantha Shannon

172. “To die in the service of a better world would be the highest honor.”

— Samantha Shannon

173. “Hope is the lifeblood of revolution. Without it, we are nothing but ash, waiting for the wind to take us.”

— Samantha Shannon

174. “I am of the considered opinion that for every person, there exists a book that will sing to them. I trust that you will find yours.”

— Samantha Shannon

175. “The moon was a half-closed eye, and they floated on water as dark as his thoughts.”

— Samantha Shannon

176. “I’m afraid Clarent is much the same. Sometimes he is in the present, sometimes in the past, and sometimes nowhere at all.”

— Samantha Shannon

177. “To call her that would prove that chaff could grow taller than grass.”

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178. “I did not want to believe Ead,” she replied, “but I see that my affinity with you cannot be denied.”

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179. “It is not that I do not want you. Only that I might want you too much. And for too long.”

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180. “When you dream of change, it shines bright, like fire, and burns away all the rot that came before it. It’s swift and inexorable. You cry for justice, and justice is done. The world stands with you in your fight. But if there was one thing I had learned in these last few weeks, it was that change had never been that simple. That kind of revolution existed only in daydreams.”

— Samantha Shannon

181. “Then there was that awful slogan: no safer place. More like no safe place. Not for us.”

— Samantha Shannon

182. “All of us have shadows in us’, he said. ‘I accept yours.’ He placed a hand over her ring. ‘And I hope you will also accept mine.’ With a tired smile, she threaded her fingers between his. ‘Gladly’.”

— Samantha Shannon

183. “Then he had come back into my life, and little by little, I had started to notice. That I looked forward to seeing him. That he made me smile without ever smiling himself. That he challenged me. That I always wanted to hear his voice. And that even though he was a mystery, and there were shadows in him I might never disperse, I somehow knew him.”

— Samantha Shannon

184. “Warden, please don’t dissuade me from the solitary mote of joy I have left in my tragedy of a life. I’m being hunted by a tyrant, my entire family is missing or dead, and I’m fresh out of the torture chamber. Please, just let me enjoy my coffee.”

— Samantha Shannon

185. “Loss had dogged her all her life. Little wonder she was holding on so tightly.”

— Samantha Shannon

186. “Loth smiled. “I’m glad you’re here, Kit.” “I should think so,” Kit said, his eyes shining.”

— Samantha Shannon

187. “How horrified they would.”

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188. “You see, my lord,” Harlowe murmured. The light feathered in his eyes. “You can find beauty anywhere.”

— Samantha Shannon

189. “She dared not speak, for to show she knew his language was to forge a link between them, and to betray herself. To betray the fact that just as she was now a witness to his crime, he was a witness to hers.”

— Samantha Shannon

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

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191. “I never expected to love him so much. In the Priory, we are not supposed to cleave too close to our own flesh. We all belong to the Mother, she said. Yet as soon as he was born, he had my heart.”

— Samantha Shannon

192. “The chamber was more like a cave than the rest of the Priory, dimmed to calm the mind. Passage from one womb to another – that was how she had seen it then, in the first clouded hour of holding him close. After the clearing, in her dreams, she remembered this room not as womb, but as tomb, as comb. No honey in a womb. No bees. She had brought him from the darkness to his end.”

— Samantha Shannon

193. “That is the problem with stories, child. The truth in them cannot be weighed.”

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

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195. “I have an interest in survival, Lord Arteloth. I recommend you nurture one, too.”

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196. “Part of me feared, before that night. That I was a fool for wanting to know you. For seeing you in everything, everywhere I turned,” he said. “I thought it was a sentence. A haunting. Until I realized it was a gift to be haunted by you.”

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197. “We must never underestimate the value of libraries, or the urgency of the need to protect them, in a world that often appears to forget the importance of stories.”

— Samantha Shannon

198. “All you see, in the end, is what I want you to see. Such is politics.”

— Samantha Shannon

199. “With her wind-spun hair and eyes bright from the hunt, Sabran Berethnet looked almost carefree – and for the first time in years, Ead felt her own cares lifted from her shoulders. Like seeds from a dandelion clock.”

— Samantha Shannon

200. “In a time of starlight, fire must rise.”

— Samantha Shannon