Samantha Shannon said this quote

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

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