Top 200 Samantha Shannon Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Love and fear do strange things to our souls. The dreams they bring, those dreams that leave us drenched in salt water and gasping for breath as if we might die.”

— Samantha Shannon

202. “Some revolutions change the world in a day. Others take decades or centuries or more, and others still never come to fruition. Mine began with a moment and a choice.”

— Samantha Shannon

203. “Writing didn’t carry the same risks as speaking. You couldn’t be shouted down or stared at. The page was both a proxy and a shield.”

— Samantha Shannon

204. “The world could end and he would find a way to keep reading.”

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205. “I didn’t believe in hearts. I believed in dreamscapes and spirits. Those were what mattered. Those made money. But my heart had hurt that day. For the first time in my life I’d been forced to acknowledge my heart, and acknowledge its fragility. It could be bruised. It could humiliate me.”

— Samantha Shannon

206. “His touch had felt strange. Warmer. It was only when I saw his hands that I realised. He wasn’t wearing gloves.”

— Samantha Shannon

207. “Like seeds from a dandelion clock.”

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208. “Books are to good for him.”

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209. “Se nos juzga por el hoy, no por el ayer.”

— Samantha Shannon

210. “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

211. “Be silent and learn something.”

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

— Samantha Shannon

213. “In darkness, we are naked. Our truest selves.”

— Samantha Shannon

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

— Samantha Shannon

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

— Samantha Shannon

216. “I will always keep you safe.”

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

— Samantha Shannon

218. “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

219. “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

220. “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

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

— Samantha Shannon

222. “By no means. There is great power in stories.”

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223. “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

224. “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

225. “The room was an hourglass that hadn’t yet turned.”

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226. “That to treat any one person as less than human was to cheapen the very substance of humanity.”

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227. “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

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

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

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

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231. “It is your nature to warm all you see, and the sun does not ask forgiveness for shining.”

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

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

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234. “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

235. “Sleep well, little dreamer.”

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236. “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

237. “Pain flowered sharply in her midriff. She closed her eyes, imagined that pain as a candle, and snuffed it. Later. She would let the grief burn when there was room for it to breathe.”

— Samantha Shannon

238. “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

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

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240. “You have not seen death, my lord. You have only seen the mask we put on it.”

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

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242. “Arcturus, as your friend, I think it’s my duty to inform you that you’re not a twelfth-century monk.”

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243. “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.”

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244. “It was all she has ever wanted. To be a Red Damsel, a slayer-in-waiting, was the dream of every girl born into the Priory.”

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245. “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

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

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247. “Ead helped her into a corset.”

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