Samantha Shannon Quotes

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

~ Samantha Shannon

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

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

~ Samantha Shannon

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

She was adamant that any organization 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

Money. The dark obsession of the human race.

~ Samantha Shannon

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

~ Samantha Shannon

I would never see him again. But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one thing: I did trust him. Now I had only to trust in myself.

~ Samantha Shannon

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

His dreamscape sent a tongue of fire across my flowers.

~ Samantha Shannon

Paige, you will have two tasks tonight,” he said, turning to face me. “Both will test the limits of your sanity. Will you believe me if I tell you that they will help you?”“Not likely,” I said, “but let's get on with it.

~ Samantha Shannon

Never allow yourself to believe you should be silent.

~ Samantha Shannon

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.

~ Samantha Shannon

I looked at him and he looked at me. A moment. A choice. My choice. His choice.

~ Samantha Shannon

Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.

~ Samantha Shannon

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

~ Samantha Shannon

Madness is a matter of perspective, little dreamer.

~ Samantha Shannon

Permission to disregard your orders, Underqueen. Permission not granted. Permission categorically denied.

~ Samantha Shannon

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

~ Samantha Shannon

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

~ Samantha Shannon

Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'

~ Samantha Shannon