Warden Quotes

“Madness is a matter of perspective, little dreamer.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“It is not that I do not want you. Only that I might want you too much. And for too long”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“His dreamscape sent a tongue of fire across my flowers.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“I have committed myself to developing your gift — but for you, Paige. Not for her.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“Every wall that I build to lock the world out is yet another wall that I’ve built that locks me in. And in the most heinous kind of imprisonment imaginable, I find that I have become both warden and inmate.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Welcome home, Soldier of Furnace.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Death Sentence

“Is it possible that my walls are specifically erected and intentionally reinforced out of the fear that God calls me to an existence without walls? And if this is so, do I realize that I am the warden of prison that I created in which I myself am the prisoner?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“Bloody, sh*tting f*ck!'
'It sounds as if she is alive' said Warden”
― Samantha Shannon, The Song Rising

“We are our greatest prison and our worst warden.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Ten minutes after that and the inmates of Furnace were starting to feel invincible, running around the prison looking for the hidden security cameras and shouting insults at the warden. Some were even flashing their backsides at him, or relieving themselves over the black eyes in the rock, and I couldn't help but laugh as I pictured him sitting in his quarters effectively getting pissed on.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, Death Sentence

“What you are about to witness is a blot upon the civilization of the twentieth century."- Sing Sing Deputy Warden Spencer Miller, Addressing Antonio Pontón’s execution witnesses on January 7, 1916”
― Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini, Antonio's Will

“If our cherished rubrics are in any way threatened, we immediately rise up and bring the whole our ourselves to bear in a rigorous defense of them. And might it be that what we’ve errantly defined as a ‘threat’ is in fact an act of liberation that we didn’t see as such simply because (unbeknownst to us) our rubrics have become our own asphyxiating prisons and we’ve become our own wardens. Hence, let us dare not confuse the rescue mission that we call Christmas with anything less than what it is.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Let the storm into you, Paige. 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.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Dawn Chorus