162 Quotes by Samantha Shannon

Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.

Margret,” he said, “you are my child. I forgave you all your sins on the first day of your life.

Sea sisters, Susa had called them once. Two pearls formed in the same oyster.

When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own.

Joke are the declaration of fools

The guards came after her. They hunted a ghost, for Ead Duryan was no more.

A great wave washed at your feet and dark wings lifted you away.

The dragons watched her. It was said they could see the deepest secrets of a soul, for human beings were made of water, and all water was theirs.

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.