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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

What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city. — Samantha Shannon

I like to imagine there were more of us in the beginning. Not many, I suppose. But more than there are now. — Samantha Shannon

I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves. — Samantha Shannon

Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always. — Samantha Shannon

Never allow yourself to believe you should be silent. — Samantha Shannon

Because I don't know whether honesty is better than happiness. Do we sacrifice honesty in order to be happy? — Samantha Shannon

It's not the end of the world, Shannon. Trust me. Trust him? I really wish people would stop asking me to do that. — Samantha Young

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. — Samantha Shannon

Money. The dark obsession of the human race. — Samantha Shannon

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

Perhaps this is for the best,' Warden said. 'You already dwell too deep in shadows.'
'I would have gone into the shadows for you. — Samantha Shannon

'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.' — Samantha Shannon

I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller. — Samantha Shannon

Truth looks different in every lens. — Samantha Shannon

We sat with our arms around each other, holding too tightly and not tightly enough. — Samantha Shannon

Change a word or two, even a single letter, and you change the entire story. — Samantha Shannon

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

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

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

The room was an hourglass that hadn't yet turned. — Samantha Shannon

With the right reasons, at the right moment, even the most beaten and broken of people could rise up and reclaim themselves. — Samantha Shannon

Isn't it wonderful, how words and paper can embroil us so? We are witnessing a miracle, dear heart. — Samantha Shannon

Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?' — Samantha Shannon

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. — 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

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. — Samantha Shannon

Then there was that awful slogan: no safer place. More like no safe place. Not for us. — Samantha Shannon

Our lifelines will meet only when the aether sees fit. That may not be often. It can never to always. — Samantha Shannon

You cannot kill death. What fire can scald the sun? Who can drown the ocean? — Samantha Shannon

Writing didn't carry the same risks as speaking. You couldn't be shouted down or stared at. The page was both a proxy and a shield. — Samantha Shannon

There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created. — Samantha Shannon

We canna grieve for those who've gone. Not before we've fought to change the world that took them. — Samantha Shannon

No life lived is lost. — 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

Hope is the lifeblood of revolution. Without it, we are nothing but ash, waiting for the wind to take us. — Samantha Shannon

His touch had felt strange. Warmer. It was only when I saw his hands that I realized.
He wasn't wearing gloves. — Samantha Shannon

It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time. — Samantha Shannon

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. — Samantha Shannon

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. — Samantha Shannon

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

You have risen from the ashes before. The only way to survive, " he said, "is to believe you always will. — Samantha Shannon

You told me once that freedom was my right." I held his gaze. "Maybe you should do something with it. — Samantha Shannon

I felt the thick beat of him. His rhythm. My rhythm. — Samantha Shannon

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. — Samantha Shannon

Jokes are the declarations of fools. — Samantha Shannon

I am sure you know what an angel is: a soul that returns to this plane to protect the person they died to save, — Samantha Shannon

I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world. — Samantha Shannon

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. — Samantha Shannon

I do not pity you. But I do know what it feels like. To be wanted only for what you are. — Samantha Shannon

Perhaps I feel safest when I think of nothing. — Samantha Shannon

We like to think we're brave, but in the end, we're only human. — Samantha Shannon

That's delusional, isn't it?'
'Definitely. But if you're both delusional together, you'll be fine. — 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

I brought you back," he said, "because I could not find the strength to fight her without you. — Samantha Shannon

They'd branded me like some kind of animal.
Lower than an animal.
A number. — Samantha Shannon

I couldn't stop. I'd never felt anything like this in my life- this rising in my chest, this need to touch. — Samantha Shannon

I have committed myself to developing your gift- but for you, Paige. Not for her. — Samantha Shannon

Run, little dreamer. — Samantha Shannon

Nothing's worse than a story without an end. — Samantha Shannon

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager. — Samantha Shannon

His thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies — Samantha Shannon

Dance and fall.
Like a puppet. All those years of dancing. — Samantha Shannon

His dreamscape sent a tongue of fire across my flowers — Samantha Shannon

I do not know what I can do for this world but I will not let any harm come to you — Samantha Shannon

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. — Samantha Shannon

For me, just being published feels like success. — Samantha Shannon

For the dreamers. — Samantha Shannon

We call these decadal harvests Bone Seasons. This is Bone Season XX. — Samantha Shannon

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. — Samantha Shannon

How did you get here, then?'
'We walked,' Maria said, 'hence the "dejected snowman" look we're all modelling. — Samantha Shannon

I will never do anything you don't want to do. You're safe with me, Shannon. — Samantha Young

Sleep well, little dreamer. — Samantha Shannon

His lips were at my ear again. "Do you want me, Shannon?"
My legs began to tremble. "Yes. — Samantha Young

It was raining that day. My last day at work. — Samantha Shannon

Madness is a matter of perspective, little dreamer. — Samantha Shannon

You seem to attract injuries in the manner that a flower attracts bees. — Samantha Shannon

The only way to survive is to believe you always will. — Samantha Shannon

I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world. — Samantha Shannon