The Dawn Chorus Quotes

“Warden, please don't dissuade me from the solitary mote of joy I have left in my tragedy of a life. I'm being hunted by a tyrant, my entire family is missing or dead, and I'm fresh out of the torture chamber. Please, just let me enjoy my coffee.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Dawn Chorus

“I wished he would hold me. I wished I could bear it.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Dawn Chorus

“Fear does not extinguish courage.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Dawn Chorus: A Bone Season novella

“I needed to fade. Not to die, not to disappear altogether – just to soften, so the world stopped catching on my sharp corners. So I didn’t feel it when it scraped me. I ached for the comfort of absence. I longed to exist less severely.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Dawn Chorus

“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