Top 200 Samantha Shannon Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “She wished she could hear its voice in her mind, as she could hear the gods. She wanted to hear the voice of chaos. She wanted to hear chaos scream.”

— Samantha Shannon

152. “Be silent and learn something.”

— Samantha Shannon

153. “You told me once that freedom was my right.” I held his gaze. “Maybe you should do something with it.”

— Samantha Shannon

154. “We canna grieve for those who’ve gone. Not before we’ve fought to change the world that took them.”

— Samantha Shannon

155. “You have been away from the tree for too long. You are a root, beloved. You must drink, or you will wither.”

— Samantha Shannon

156. “There is enough of a story there to fill a book.”

— Samantha Shannon

157. “And she knew it would rip her apart, in the end – this yearning that pulled at the seams of her being, and the duty that sewed her tighter by the day, into the robes of the Empress of Seiiki.”

— Samantha Shannon

158. “He was not imposing in the physical sense; he was fine-boned, slim as a feather, almost delicate at first glance – but his eyes were dungeons. Once he had you in his gaze, you were his until he let it go.”

— Samantha Shannon

159. “He wouldn’t have understood if I’d told him why I spend my time with criminals. He didn’t know that I belonged with them. More than I belonged with him.”

— Samantha Shannon

160. “Arteloth, we are courtiers. We have no useful instincts.”

— Samantha Shannon

161. “A former exile who dabbles in alchemy and spent weeks in the employ of pirates. Yes, that sounds like someone they would want to mold the minds of the next generation.”

— Samantha Shannon

162. “She had not been human in that final hour. Just a paper lantern, thin and wind-torn, clinging to the flickering remnants of a soul. Yet when there was no more to climb, and she had looked up and seen nothing but the terrible beauty of the sky, she had found the strength to rise.”

— Samantha Shannon

163. “For Rephaim, it takes a long time for a flame to cath. But once it burns, it cannot go out.” It didn’t take long to understand what he meant. “But I will,” I said. “I’ll stop. I’ll go out.” There was a long silence. “Yes,” Warden said, very softly. “You will go out.”

— Samantha Shannon

164. “Every revolution begins with breakfast,’ I quoted as they left. ‘Is this your revolution, Jaxon?”

— Samantha Shannon

165. “I was only observing how the fiercest of warriors can hide behind such gentle faces.”

— Samantha Shannon

166. “When he slept, he dreamed his sheet were poisoned.”

— Samantha Shannon

167. “The wisest are seldom appreciated in their time.”

— Samantha Shannon

168. “It can be a lonely feeling, not knowing where you fit.”

— Samantha Shannon

169. “You have seen more of the world than others have written of it You could shake the dust from the lecterns, breathe life into the textbooks.”

— Samantha Shannon

170. “Sleep well, little dreamer.”

— Samantha Shannon

171. “Above, the tower. Emberlight and the pendant dark. Below, the hidden world that sheltered the forsaken. And I walked the liminal between them, with a god at my side and the streets like dying coals around us, waiting to be stoked. The fire was in the citadel, in his eyes, in my skin.”

— Samantha Shannon

172. “Onren looked over her shoulder at him. ‘I thought I heard you talking. Have we met?’ When he opened his mouth, she said, ‘Don’t tell me. You’re plainly a fool, and I have no interest in befriending fools.”

— Samantha Shannon

173. “An astronomer. I never thought I’d say this, but we need one.”

— Samantha Shannon

174. “War has often been called a game, with good reason. Both have combatants. Both have sides. Both carry the risk of losing.”

— Samantha Shannon

175. “I have studied many books on human history, and if there is one thing I have learned from them, it is that it is not always possible to find reason in tradition. It is the same for Rephaim.”

— Samantha Shannon

176. “It was sleep, but not-sleep; a boundless darkness, settled by one soul. She had been chained here for a thousand years, but now, at last, she stirred.”

— Samantha Shannon

177. “It was as if her heart had been hooked from her mouth, caught like a fish on a line.”

— Samantha Shannon

178. “Ead helped her into a corset.”

— Samantha Shannon

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

— Samantha Shannon

180. “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

181. “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

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

— Samantha Shannon

183. “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

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

— Samantha Shannon

185. “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

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

— Samantha Shannon

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

— Samantha Shannon

188. “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.”

— Samantha Shannon

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

— Samantha Shannon

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

— Samantha Shannon

191. “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

192. “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.”

— Samantha Shannon

193. “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

194. “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

195. “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.”

— Samantha Shannon

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

— Samantha Shannon

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

— Samantha Shannon

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

— Samantha Shannon

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

— Samantha Shannon

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

— Samantha Shannon