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Top 20 Sofia Samatar Quotes (2025 Update)

Sofia Samatar Quote: “It is... courage to choose not what will make us happy, but what is precious.”

1. “It is... courage to choose not what will make us happy, but what is precious.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “The silence. End of all poetry, all romances. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had been turned, the book was so heavy in one hand, so light in the other, thinning toward the end. Still, you consoled yourself. You were not quite at the end of the story, at that terrible flyleaf, blank like a shuttered window: there were still a few pages under your thumb, still to be sought and treasured.”

2. “The silence. End of all poetry, all romances. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had been turned, the book was so heavy in one hand, so light in the other, thinning toward the end. Still, you consoled yourself. You were not quite at the end of the story, at that terrible flyleaf, blank like a shuttered window: there were still a few pages under your thumb, still to be sought and treasured.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “I should die,” said Ivrom. “That is blasphemy,” the old man answered kindly. “I should suffer.” “You are suffering, are you not?” “Not enough.” “Consider the sufferings ordained by the Nameless Gods,” the priest quoted. “A cupful weighs as much as an ocean.” In fact – as Ivrom would discover later – a cupful weighs much more. When.”

3. “I should die,” said Ivrom. “That is blasphemy,” the old man answered kindly. “I should suffer.” “You are suffering, are you not?” “Not enough.” “Consider the sufferings ordained by the Nameless Gods,” the priest quoted. “A cupful weighs as much as an ocean.” In fact – as Ivrom would discover later – a cupful weighs much more. When.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “To lose a sibling is to lose the one different from you. There’s no one now against whom to say: But I am like this. I am this.”

4. “To lose a sibling is to lose the one different from you. There’s no one now against whom to say: But I am like this. I am this.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “The night sky was distended in my dreams, sinking to earth with the weight of destructive glory behind it. In one of those dreams I reached up and touched it gently with a fingertip, and it burst like a yolk, releasing a deluge of light.”

5. “The night sky was distended in my dreams, sinking to earth with the weight of destructive glory behind it. In one of those dreams I reached up and touched it gently with a fingertip, and it burst like a yolk, releasing a deluge of light.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “I sat down in the wilderness with my books, and wept for joy.”

6. “I sat down in the wilderness with my books, and wept for joy.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “A book,” says Vandos of Ur-Amakir, “is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert, a river that has no bridge, a garden of spears.”

7. “A book,” says Vandos of Ur-Amakir, “is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert, a river that has no bridge, a garden of spears.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “The silence had a depth to it, like the stillness after a bell has been struck and the echoes have died away, and one waits for what has been summoned.”

8. “The silence had a depth to it, like the stillness after a bell has been struck and the echoes have died away, and one waits for what has been summoned.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “I want to stay there. I don’t want to go any further. I want to stay. I can’t remember who it was – one of the poets, perhaps Tamundein – who said that all of our happiest hours must pass away at last, even those in which we believe we are unhappy.”

9. “I want to stay there. I don’t want to go any further. I want to stay. I can’t remember who it was – one of the poets, perhaps Tamundein – who said that all of our happiest hours must pass away at last, even those in which we believe we are unhappy.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “Ravhathos called the life of the poet “the fair and fatal road, of which even the dust and stones are dear to my heart,” and cautioned that those who spend long hours engaged in reading or writing should not be spoken to for seven hours afterward.”

10. “Ravhathos called the life of the poet “the fair and fatal road, of which even the dust and stones are dear to my heart,” and cautioned that those who spend long hours engaged in reading or writing should not be spoken to for seven hours afterward.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “All through my journey his stories had fallen like snow. He was as full of them as a library with unmarked shelves. He was a talking book.”

11. “All through my journey his stories had fallen like snow. He was as full of them as a library with unmarked shelves. He was a talking book.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “People talked about loneliness as if it were something alive and it could get you. But loneliness is something dead, it’s deadness. Lonely people are slowly dying people.”

12. “People talked about loneliness as if it were something alive and it could get you. But loneliness is something dead, it’s deadness. Lonely people are slowly dying people.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “The tunneling entrance curves before it opens into this space and there is absolute, waiting, coiled, and sentient blackness.”

13. “The tunneling entrance curves before it opens into this space and there is absolute, waiting, coiled, and sentient blackness.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “Words are sublime, and in books we may commune with the dead. Beyond this there is nothing true, no voices we can hear.”

14. “Words are sublime, and in books we may commune with the dead. Beyond this there is nothing true, no voices we can hear.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “The word for “book” in all the known languages of the earth is vallon, “chamber of words,” the Olondrian name for that tool of enchantment and art.”

15. “The word for “book” in all the known languages of the earth is vallon, “chamber of words,” the Olondrian name for that tool of enchantment and art.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “All bleed who fight with the sword. All confront, with greater or lesser difficulty, the worship of their own flesh. The swordmaiden faces particular obstacles in this matter: she will have seen, in the temples and elsewhere, many images of unscarred women.”

16. “All bleed who fight with the sword. All confront, with greater or lesser difficulty, the worship of their own flesh. The swordmaiden faces particular obstacles in this matter: she will have seen, in the temples and elsewhere, many images of unscarred women.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “I sat enchanted, far from my gods, adrift in the boat of spices, in the sigh of the South, in the net of the wheeling stars, in the country of dolphins.”

17. “I sat enchanted, far from my gods, adrift in the boat of spices, in the sigh of the South, in the net of the wheeling stars, in the country of dolphins.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “There is enough cruelty in the world,” she told me softly, “to justify all the music ever made.”

18. “There is enough cruelty in the world,” she told me softly, “to justify all the music ever made.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “One wants to ask what the hell his parents made him for – which, is you will recall, the central question of Frankenstein’s monster. What the hell did you make me for, and why did you make me like this? To a failed experiment, the failure is unforgivable.”

19. “One wants to ask what the hell his parents made him for – which, is you will recall, the central question of Frankenstein’s monster. What the hell did you make me for, and why did you make me like this? To a failed experiment, the failure is unforgivable.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “This is the grief that comes when we are abandoned by the angels: silence, in every direction, irrevocable.”

20. “This is the grief that comes when we are abandoned by the angels: silence, in every direction, irrevocable.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “The swordmaiden wears her loyalty like a necklace of dead stars. Their worth is eternal, although they no longer shine.”

21. “The swordmaiden wears her loyalty like a necklace of dead stars. Their worth is eternal, although they no longer shine.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “Her small mouth opens and closes, a cave of light. And night falls down around me like a temple of broken glass.”

22. “Her small mouth opens and closes, a cave of light. And night falls down around me like a temple of broken glass.”

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Sofia Samatar Quote: “Roads, roads!” she wrote in her little apartment, which was sinking deeper into the sand each year. “The more there are, the more beautifully kept they are, the harder it is to go anywhere.”

23. “Roads, roads!” she wrote in her little apartment, which was sinking deeper into the sand each year. “The more there are, the more beautifully kept they are, the harder it is to go anywhere.”

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