Samantha Shannon > Samantha's Quotes

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
― Emily Dickinson

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“You know I've always considered women to be people.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to gaurd us; and if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognize our innocence, and God waits ony a speration of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“There was a solace in a snow-laden forest wrapped in night found nowhere else, a loneliness that made me better acquainted with myself.”
― Lisa Lueddecke, A Shiver of Snow and Sky

“She’s got a laugh you wish you could bottle up and wear like perfume whenever you’re feeling sad because it would always cheer you up.”
― Katherine Webber, Wing Jones

“There are as many sorts of women as there are women.”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

“To wash your hair, apply your makeup and put on clothes that are well-scented with incense. Even if you’re somewhere where no one special will see you, you still feel a heady sense of pleasure inside.”
― Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book

“I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.”
― Emily Dickinson