“Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“Madness is a matter of perspective, little dreamer.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“Hope is the lifeblood of revolution. Without it, we are nothing but ash, waiting for the wind to take us.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“You can never want too much. That’s how they silence us,” I said. “They told us we were lucky to be in the penal colony instead of the æther. Lucky to be murdered with NiteKind, not the noose. Lucky to be alive, even if we weren’t free. They told us to stop wanting more than what they gave us, because what they gave us was more than we deserved.” I picked up my jacket. “You’re not a prisoner any more, Arcturus.” Warden looked at me in silence. I left him in that ruined hall with the music echoing above him.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“Change a word or two, even a single letter, and you change the entire story.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“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.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“It is not that I do not want you. Only that I might want you too much. And for too long”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“With the right reasons, at the right moment, even the most beaten and broken of people could rise up and reclaim themselves.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“His dreamscape sent a tongue of fire across my flowers.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“London - beautiful, immortal London - has never been a 'city' in the simplest sense of the word. It was, and is, a living, breathing thing, a stone leviathan that harbours secrets underneath its scales. It guards them covetously, hiding them deep within its body; only the mad or the worthy can find them.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“Isn’t it wonderful, how words and paper can embroil us so? We are witnessing a miracle, dear heart.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“Truth looks different in every lens.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“You told me once that freedom was my right.” I held his gaze. “Maybe you should do something with it.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“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, quote from The Mime Order
“Dance and fall.
Like a puppet. All those years of dancing.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“You seem to attract injuries in the manner that a flower attracts bees.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“It’s rare that a story begins at the beginning. In the grand scheme of things, I really turned up at the beginning of the end of this one. After all, the story of the Rephaim and Scion started almost two hundred years before I was born - and human lives, to Rephaim, are as fleeting as a single heartbeat.
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. Mine began with the blooming of a flower in a secret city on the border between worlds.
You’ll have to wait and see how it ends.
Welcome back to Scion.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“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?”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“That's delusional, isn't it?”
“Definitely. But if you're both delusional together, you'll be fine.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“Money. The dark obsession of the human race.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“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.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“Jokes are the declarations of fools.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“One day,” was the dark reply, “I will find the Ripper, and you will prove it with your life.”
“I hope that is not a threat against my person, sir, verily I do.” The auctioneer was all of a quiver. “I shall not endure that sort of talk in my wife's very own auction house, sir. Judith would never have allowed such wanton verbal abuse, sir.”
“Where's you wife's spirit?” a medium shouted. 'Shall we auction her off, too?'
Didion purpled like a bruise. You knew things were getting serious when Didion Waite ran out of sirs.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“Life, for all its wonders, is rather flimsy in the end.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“For Rephaim, it takes a long time for a flame to cath. But once it burns, it cannot go out." It didn't take long to understand what he meant. "But I will," I said. "I'll stop. I'll go out." There was a long silence. "Yes," Warden said, very softly. "You will go out.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“Our lifelines will meet only when the aether sees fit. That may not be often. It can never to always.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“Loose tongues oft lead to loose necks.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“He was capable of kindness, but he wasn't kind. He could act like he cared, but it would always be an act.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“Everything was too bright, too loud, too fast. I was used to streets with no electric lights, devoid of noise pollution. This world seemed mad in comparison. My sordid, sacred SciLo, my prison and my home.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
“The truth was our best weapon.”
― Samantha Shannon, quote from The Mime Order
Samantha Shannon
Born place: in London, The United Kingdom
Born date November 8, 1991
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“A crazy certainty had arisen in his mind: a hand - or perhaps a claw - was going to swim up from the grayness of the Kindle's screen, grab him by the throat, and yank him in.”
― Stephen King, quote from UR
“What is that song they are singing Is it an old Yorkshire ditty you know like that 'On Ilkley Moor Bar T'at' "
Ruby said "Nah it's a football song. It goes 'We hate Chelsea we hate Chelsea we are the Chelsea haters.”
― Louise Rennison, quote from Withering Tights
“Her mother, an unshapely, chubby-cheeked creature from the rural gentry of Styria, permanently lost her hair at the age of forty after being treated for influenza by her husband, and prematurely withdrew from society. She and her husband were able to live in the Gentzgasse thanks to her mother's fortune, which derived from the family estates in Styria and then devolved upon her. She provided for everything, since her husband earned nothing as a doctor. He was a socialite, what is known as a beau, who went to all the big Viennese balls during the carnival season and throughout his life was able to conceal his stupidity behind a pleasingly slim exterior. Throughout her life Auersberger's mother-in-law had a raw deal from her husband, but was content to accept her modest social station, not that of a member of the nobility, but one that was thoroughly petit bourgeois. Her son-in-law, as I suddenly recalled, sitting in the wing chair, made a point of hiding her wig from time to time--whenever the mood took him--both in the Gentzgasse and at the Maria Zaal in Styria, so that the poor woman was unable to leave the house. It used to amuse him, after he had hidden her wig, to drive his mother-in-law up the wall, as they say. Even when he was going on forty he used to hide her wigs--by that time she has provided herself with several--which was a symptom of his sickness and infantility. I often witnessed this game of hide-and-seek at Maria Zaal and in the Gentzgasse, and I honestly have to say that I was amused by it and did not feel in the least bit ashamed of myself. His mother-in-law would be forced to stay at home because her son-in-law had hidden her wigs, and this was especially likely to happen on public holidays. In the end he would throw the wig in her face. He needed his mother-in-law's humiliation, I reflected, sitting in the wing chair and observing him in the background of the music room, just as he needed the triumph that this diabolical behavior brought him.”
― Thomas Bernhard, quote from Woodcutters
“SO NOW WE were the Luck family – Victoria, Kendall and Lola Rose – and we had a whole new life going for us.”
― Jacqueline Wilson, quote from Lola Rose
“To friends, family, food and taking exams in comfortable, quiet areas without distractions or time restrictions!”
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