The Bone Season Quotes

“Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“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.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“You cannot kill death. What fire can scald the sun? Who can drown the ocean?”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“For the dreamers.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“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.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“I looked at him and he looked at me. A moment. A choice. My choice. His choice.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“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.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“His thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“There are certain things in life that you never forget. Things that dig deep, things that nest in the hadal zone.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“I do not know what I can do for this world but I will not let any harm come to you.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“They'd branded me like some kind of animal. Lower than an animal. A number.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“Because I don’t know whether honesty is better than happiness. Do we sacrifice honesty in order to be happy?”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“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.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“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.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“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.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“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.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“No life lived is lost.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“Run, little dreamer.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“I like to imagine there were more of us in the beginning. Not many, I suppose. But more than there are now.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“if I never returned-if you never see me again-it will mean that everything is alright. That I have ended her. But if I return, it will mean I have failed. That there is still danger. And then I will find you”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“But if there was a heaven this is what it would have felt like. Touching the aether with my bare hands I could never have anticipated this, not from him.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“You may not believe it, but it is what I desire the most in the world. This place has afflicted me with a terrible wanderlust. I long for the fire, for the sights you have seen. Yet here I am, two hundred years after I arrived. Still a prisoner, though I masquerade as a king.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“Perhaps I feel safest when I think of nothing.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“I thought of all the years I had spent thinking about him, wondering if he would ever come back to me. And I thought of him now, pictured his smile, how he looked after me, and it was useless: I just wanted him. I put my head in my arms and cried.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“I brought you back because I could not find the strength to fight her without you but for that same reason I will do everything in my power to see you safely to the Citadel.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“You saved me, Nick. Sooner or later I would have lost my mind. I had to know, or I would have always felt like an outsider. You made me feel like I was part of something, part of a lot of things actually. I'll never be able to repay you for that.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“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.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

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