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

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

— Samantha Shannon

His dreamscape sent a tongue of fire across my flowers.

— Samantha Shannon

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

— Samantha Shannon

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

— 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

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

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

Madness is a matter of perspective, little dreamer.

— Samantha Shannon

Money. The dark obsession of the human race.

— Samantha Shannon