162 Quotes by Samantha Shannon

It is not that I do not want you. Only that I might want you too much. And for too long

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.

Let the storm into you. Hold it inside. See yourself as a force of nature, vast enough to defeat a god, and carry that image for all of your days.

Wissen ist Macht, gab Julian zu bedenken. Sie haben es, wir nicht. - Da irrst du dich Bruder. Wissen ist gefährlich. (…) Wenn man erst mal etwas weiß, wird man es nicht mehr los. Dann muss man damit leben, für immer.

We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.

I will endure, my midnight sun. I will teach my heart to beat again.

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

Each of her words was the skip of a stone across a lake, forming ripples of emotion. The Queen of Inys could not cast illusions, but her voice and bearing on this night had turned her into an enchantress.

The world could end and he would find a way to keep reading