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61 " 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 (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
62 " But when the heart grows too full, it overflows. And mine, inevitably, overflows on to a page. "
63 " Hope is the lifeblood of revolution. Without it, we are nothing but ash, waiting for the wind to take us. "
― Samantha Shannon , The Mime Order (The Bone Season, #2)
64 " When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own. "
65 " 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. "
66 " You know I take the Knight of Courage as my patron. There is courage, I think, in open-mindedness, and thinking for oneself. If you are a witch, then perhaps witches are not so wicked after all. "
67 " You cannot kill death. What fire can scald the sun? Who can drown the ocean? "
― Samantha Shannon , The Bone Season (The Bone Season, #1)
68 " You have risen from the ashes before. The only way to survive, " he said, "is to believe you always will. "
― Samantha Shannon , The Song Rising (The Bone Season, #3)
69 " 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. "
70 " Her feelings had come like a flower on a tree. A bud, gently forming - and just like that, an undying blossom. "
71 " Do you not see that this is a divine mission?No, I do not, you witless cabbage. "
72 " For the dreamers. "
73 " Just because something has always been done does not mean that it ought to be done. "
74 " Change a word or two, even a single letter, and you change the entire story. "
75 " My evening star. If the sun burned out tomorrow, your flame would light the world. "
76 " I don't know. I just want you with me.I had never said those words aloud. Now that I could taste my freedom I wanted him to share it with me. But he couldn't change his life for me. And I couldn't sacrifice my life to be with him. "
77 " There are certain things in life that you never forget. Things that dig deep, things that nest in the hadal zone. "
78 " 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. "
79 " You have not seen death, my lord. You have only seen the mask we put on it. "
80 " His thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies. "