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Samantha Shannon

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    Samantha Shannon

    his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies

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    Samantha Shannon

    I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

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    Samantha Shannon

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

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    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

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    Samantha Shannon

    I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkiens legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.

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

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    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.

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

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    I would never see him again. But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one thing: I did trust him. Now I had only to trust in myself.

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    My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacant with whatever work life threw at me. My father, as usual, was wrong.

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    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.

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    There are certain things in life that you never forget. Things that dig deep, things that nest in the hadal zone.

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

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    Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

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

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    And I waited for the sun to rise - as it always had, like a song from the night.

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    Are you afraid?' 'Of course.' 'Good. Fear will make you fight. Don't let a silly little shit like Turosa get the better of you, whoever his mother is.

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    Art is not one great act of creation, but many small ones. When you read one of my poems, you fail to see the weeks of careful work it took me to build it--the thinking, the scratched-out words, the pages I burned in disgust. All you see, in the end, is what I want you to see.

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    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.

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    Samantha Shannon

    Cloud steamed from its scales - scales of moonstone, so bright they seemed to glow from within. A crust of gem-like droplets glistened on each one. Each eye was a burning star, and each horn was quicksilver, agleam under the pallid moon.

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    Ead knew the scent of a secret. She wore it like a perfume.

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

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    Her feelings had come like a flower on a tree. A bud, gently forming - and just like that, an undying blossom.

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    His dreamscape sent a tongue of fire across my flowers.

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    I do.” He was clearly amused by my disdain. “We have only been speaking for two minutes, Paige. Try not to waste all your sarcasm in one breath.

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    I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.

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

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

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    it still amused me that criminals had laws.

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    It was all she has ever wanted. To be a Red Damsel, a slayer-in-waiting, was the dream of every girl born into the Priory.

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    Just going outside put me at risk of winding up dead or captured. If I let that daunt me, I'd never do anything.

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    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.

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    Madness is a matter of perspective, little dreamer.

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

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    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.

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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.

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    No woman should be made to fear that she was not enough.

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    Paige, you will have two tasks tonight,” he said, turning to face me. “Both will test the limits of your sanity. Will you believe me if I tell you that they will help you?” “Not likely,” I said, “but let's get on with it.

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

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    Reading,' Ead said lightly. 'A dangerous pastime.

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

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    She was adamant that any organisation that labelled one group of people as evil would eventually do the same to others. That to treat any one person as less than human was to cheapen the very substance of humanity.

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    That is the problem with stories, child. The truth in them cannot be weighed.

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    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.

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    We erect a statue in our own image inside ourselves - idealised, you know, but still recognisable - and then spend our lives engaged in the effort to make ourselves into its likeness.

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    We must never underestimate the value of libraries, or the urgency of the need to protect them, in a world that often appears to forget the importance of stories.