The Mime Order Quotes

“Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

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

“Hope is the lifeblood of revolution. Without it, we are nothing but ash, waiting for the wind to take us.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“You can never want too much. That’s how they silence us,” I said. “They told us we were lucky to be in the penal colony instead of the æther. Lucky to be murdered with NiteKind, not the noose. Lucky to be alive, even if we weren’t free. They told us to stop wanting more than what they gave us, because what they gave us was more than we deserved.” I picked up my jacket. “You’re not a prisoner any more, Arcturus.” Warden looked at me in silence. I left him in that ruined hall with the music echoing above him.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“Change a word or two, even a single letter, and you change the entire story.”
― 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

“Some revolutions change the world in a day. Others take decades or centuries or more, and others still never come to fruition. Mine began with a moment and a choice.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“With the right reasons, at the right moment, even the most beaten and broken of people could rise up and reclaim themselves.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“Truth looks different in every lens.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

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

“Writing didn't carry the same risks as speaking. You couldn't be shouted down or stared at. The page was both a proxy and a shield.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

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

“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.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“You told me once that freedom was my right.” I held his gaze. “Maybe you should do something with it.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“That's delusional, isn't it?”
“Definitely. But if you're both delusional together, you'll be fine.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“But Warden cared if I laughed. He cared if I lived or died. He had seen me as I was, not as the world saw me. And that meant something. It had to. Didn’t it?”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“It’s rare that a story begins at the beginning. In the grand scheme of things, I really turned up at the beginning of the end of this one. After all, the story of the Rephaim and Scion started almost two hundred years before I was born - and human lives, to Rephaim, are as fleeting as a single heartbeat.
Some revolutions change the world in a day. Others take decades or centuries or more, and others still never come to fruition. Mine began with a moment and a choice. Mine began with the blooming of a flower in a secret city on the border between worlds.
You’ll have to wait and see how it ends.
Welcome back to Scion.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“Dance and fall.
Like a puppet. All those years of dancing.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“You seem to attract injuries in the manner that a flower attracts bees.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“Money. The dark obsession of the human race.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“For Rephaim, it takes a long time for a flame to cath. But once it burns, it cannot go out." It didn't take long to understand what he meant. "But I will," I said. "I'll stop. I'll go out." There was a long silence. "Yes," Warden said, very softly. "You will go out.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“Life, for all its wonders, is rather flimsy in the end.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“He was capable of kindness, but he wasn't kind. He could act like he cared, but it would always be an act.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“Jokes are the declarations of fools.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“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. It is the same for Rephaim.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“Every revolution begins with breakfast, darling.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“Our lifelines will meet only when the aether sees fit. That may not be often. It can never to always.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“Loose tongues oft lead to loose necks.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“That is the music I wanted to hear,’ he said. ‘When was the last time you laughed?”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“And words, my walker—well, words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order