Never allow yourself to believe you should be silent.

— Samantha Shannon

Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

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

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

— Samantha Shannon