“No woman should be made to fear that she was not enough.”
―
Samantha Shannon,
The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season
“We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Reading,' Ead said lightly. 'A dangerous pastime.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“I would live alone for fifty years to have one day with you.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season
“Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season
“All the world is a cage in a young girl's eyes.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order
“To be kin to a dragon, you must not only have a soul of water. You must have the blood of the sea, and the sea is not always pure. It is not any one thing. There is darkness in it, and danger, and cruelty. It can raze great cities with its rage. Its depths are unknowable; they do not see the touch of the sun. To be a Miduchi is not to be pure, Tané. It is to be the living sea. That is why I chose you. You have a dragon’s heart.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Some truths are safest buried. Some castles best kept in the sky. There's promise in tales that are yet to be spoken.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“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.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season
“When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Madness is a matter of perspective, little dreamer.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order
“But when the heart grows too full, it overflows. And mine, inevitably, overflows on to a page.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“You wear so much armour by daylight that, by night, you can carry it no longer. By night, you are only flesh. And even the flesh of a queen is prone to fear.In darkness, we are naked. Our truest selves. Night is when fear comes to us at its fullest, when we have no way to fight it. It will do everything it can to seep inside you. Sometimes it may succeed - but never think that you are the night.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“That is the problem with stories, child. The truth in them cannot be weighed.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Just because something has always been done does not mean that it ought to be done.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season
“We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Reading,' Ead said lightly. 'A dangerous pastime.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“I would live alone for fifty years to have one day with you.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season
“Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season
“All the world is a cage in a young girl's eyes.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order
“To be kin to a dragon, you must not only have a soul of water. You must have the blood of the sea, and the sea is not always pure. It is not any one thing. There is darkness in it, and danger, and cruelty. It can raze great cities with its rage. Its depths are unknowable; they do not see the touch of the sun. To be a Miduchi is not to be pure, Tané. It is to be the living sea. That is why I chose you. You have a dragon’s heart.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Some truths are safest buried. Some castles best kept in the sky. There's promise in tales that are yet to be spoken.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“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.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season
“When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Madness is a matter of perspective, little dreamer.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order
“But when the heart grows too full, it overflows. And mine, inevitably, overflows on to a page.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“You wear so much armour by daylight that, by night, you can carry it no longer. By night, you are only flesh. And even the flesh of a queen is prone to fear.In darkness, we are naked. Our truest selves. Night is when fear comes to us at its fullest, when we have no way to fight it. It will do everything it can to seep inside you. Sometimes it may succeed - but never think that you are the night.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“That is the problem with stories, child. The truth in them cannot be weighed.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Just because something has always been done does not mean that it ought to be done.” ― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
