The Mime Order (The Bone Season, #2)

by Samantha Shannon

We like to think we’re brave, but in the end, we’re only human.

With the right reasons, at the right moment, even the most beaten and broken of people could rise up and reclaim themselves.

“Isn’t it wonderful, how words and paper can embroil us so? We are witnessing a miracle, dear heart.”

well, words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.”

“Matters of the heart are quite beyond me. Hearts are frivolous things, good for nothing but pickling.”

“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.

But fear and understanding were kindred things. Both involved the loss of the familiar and the terrible danger of knowledge.

“Hope is the lifeblood of revolution. Without it, we are nothing but ash, waiting for the wind to take us.”