Top 100 Samantha Shannon Quotes
#2. Don't push me." She stopped and glared at me over her shoulder. "You're my friend, Shannon. I care about you, but if I have to choose, I choose Cole. So back the fuck off before I slap the fucking stupidity out of you.
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#3. I will never do anything you don't want to do. You're safe with me, Shannon.
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#4. I do not know what I can do for this world but I will not let any harm come to you
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#5. We sat with our arms around each other, holding too tightly and not tightly enough.
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#7. I thought of all the years I had spent thinking about him, wondering if he would ever come back to me. And I thought of him now, pictured his smile, how he looked after me, and it was useless: I just wanted him. I put my head in my arms and cried.
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#8. We like to think we're brave, but in the end, we're only human.
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#9. My silver cord - the link between my body and my spirit - was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.
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#10. Every revolution begins with breakfast,' I quoted as they left. 'Is this your revolution, Jaxon?
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#11. I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
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#13. You may not believe it, but it is what I desire the most in the world. This place has afflicted me with a terrible wanderlust. I long for the fire, for the sights you have seen. Yet here I am, two hundred years after I arrived. Still a prisoner, though I masquerade as a king.
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#14. I have committed myself to developing your gift- but for you, Paige. Not for her.
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#15. 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.
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#16. My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacant with whatever work life threw at me.
My father, as usual, was wrong.
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#17. 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.
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#18. Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.
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#19. 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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#20. I brought you back," he said, "because I could not find the strength to fight her without you.
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#21. I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.
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#22. I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.
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#23. J. K. Rowling is one of my favourite authors, and I really admire how she created this big wizarding world. But I think our books are very, very different, and I don't think there can be a next J. K. Rowling. She is one of a kind.
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#24. His lips were at my ear again. "Do you want me, Shannon?"
My legs began to tremble. "Yes.
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#25. His thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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.'
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#28. I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.
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#29. My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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#31. 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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#32. Not all of us know what we are. Some of us die without ever knowing. Some of us know, and never get caught. But we're out there.
Trust me.
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#33. Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.
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#34. I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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#35. But if there was a heaven this is what it would have felt like. Touching the aether with my bare hands I could never have anticipated this, not from him
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#36. If I never returned-if you never see me again-it will mean that everything is alright. That I have ended her. But if I return, it will mean I have failed. That there is still danger. And then I will find you
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#37. 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.
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#38. 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.
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#39. How did you get here, then?'
'We walked,' Maria said, 'hence the "dejected snowman" look we're all modelling.
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#40. What I will tell you is that you cannot force yourself to mourn. Sometimes, the best way to honour the dead is to simply keep living.
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#41. We canna grieve for those who've gone. Not before we've fought to change the world that took them.
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#42. People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays.
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#43. But Warden cared if I laughed. He cared if I lived or died. He had seen me as I was, not as the world saw me. And that meant something. It had to. Didn't it?
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#45. Our lifelines will meet only when the aether sees fit. That may not be often. It can never to always.
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#47. I like to imagine there were more of us in the beginning. Not many, I suppose. But more than there are now.
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#48. I couldn't stop. I'd never felt anything like this in my life- this rising in my chest, this need to touch.
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#49. I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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#51. I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
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#52. I do." He was clearly amused by my disdain. "We have only been speaking for two minutes, Paige. Try not to waste all your sarcasm in one breath."
I wanted to kill him. As it happened, I couldn't.
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#54. I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
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#55. I do not pity you. But I do know what it feels like. To be wanted only for what you are.
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#57. I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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#58. I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.
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#59. Then there was that awful slogan: no safer place. More like no safe place. Not for us.
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#61. 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.
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#63. That's delusional, isn't it?'
'Definitely. But if you're both delusional together, you'll be fine.
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#65. Just going outside put me at risk of winding up dead or captured. If I let that daunt me, I'd never do anything.
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#66. You cannot kill death. What fire can scald the sun? Who can drown the ocean?
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#67. Isn't it wonderful, how words and paper can embroil us so? We are witnessing a miracle, dear heart.
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#68. I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
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#69. Don't you dare," he said. "Don't you dare let her see it. You are more than that. You are more than what she wants to do to you.
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#70. I brought you back because I could not find the strength to fight her without you but for that same reason I will do everything in my power to see you safely to the Citadel
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#71. Perhaps this is for the best,' Warden said. 'You already dwell too deep in shadows.'
'I would have gone into the shadows for you.
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#73. You told me once that freedom was my right." I held his gaze. "Maybe you should do something with it.
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#74. You saved me, Nick. Sooner or later I would have lost my mind. I had to know, or I would have always felt like an outsider. You made me feel like I was part of something, part of a lot of things actually. I'll never be able to repay you for that.
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#76. They'd branded me like some kind of animal.
Lower than an animal.
A number.
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#77. I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.
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#78. I don't know. I just want you with me.' I had never said those words aloud. Now that I could taste my freedom I wanted him to share it with me. But he couldn't change his life for me. And I couldn't sacrifice my life to be with him.
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#79. Permission to disregard your orders, Underqueen."
"Permission not granted. Permission categorically denied.
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#80. There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.
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#81. All will go to plan, Paige. You should not give up hope." He looked at the stage. "Hope is the one thing that might still save us all." I followed his gaze. The bell jar and the lifeless flowers stood on a covered plinth. "Hope for what?" "Change.
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#82. I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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#83. I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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#84. No, Paige. I am trying to help you."
"Go to hell."
"I already exist on a level of hell."
"Exist on one that isn't near mine.
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#85. I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don't know if I'd necessarily want to know.
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#86. 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.
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#87. I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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#88. I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar.
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#89. What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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#90. She was adamant that any organisation 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.' Sorrow
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#91. You have risen from the ashes before. The only way to survive, " he said, "is to believe you always will.
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#92. London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good.
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#93. I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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#95. 'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'
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#96. I imagined, too. And so imagination became my nemesis; my mind created monsters out of nothing.
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#97. With the right reasons, at the right moment, even the most beaten and broken of people could rise up and reclaim themselves.
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#98. It's not the end of the world, Shannon. Trust me. Trust him? I really wish people would stop asking me to do that.
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#99. You seem to attract injuries in the manner that a flower attracts bees.
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