The Shadow Cabinet Quotes

“You've taken things apart and put them back together," Chinara reminded her.
"Like Ikea furniture, not people!”
― Juno Dawson, The Shadow Cabinet

“You learn the hard way that every girl wants to think they’re not like other girls, and that’s because girls are regarded so poorly by the world.”
― Juno Dawson, The Shadow Cabinet

“Most mundane men didn’t have an awful lot going on upstairs, and there’s no point erecting a diving board above a puddle.”
― Juno Dawson, The Shadow Cabinet

“When teenage girls are finding their voices, they can be forgiven for misplacing the volume dial.”
― Juno Dawson, The Shadow Cabinet

“Inside every witch there are two crows: one saying you can’t use your powers to fix the world to your liking, and another cawing, why not?”
― Juno Dawson, The Shadow Cabinet

“The great lie of Belial,’ Calista said. ‘That men deserve the world, and women deserve men. It is up to the fathers to decide whether they share the lie, and the sons to decide if they believe it.’ ‘But yes,’ Zehra said. ‘Women have a natural predator, and it is man.”
― Juno Dawson, The Shadow Cabinet

“you’d be a fool to think progress equals protection,”
― Juno Dawson, The Shadow Cabinet

“How she’d relished I’m not like the other girls. She chuckled at the memory now. You learn the hard way that every girl wants to think they’re not like other girls, and that’s because girls are regarded so poorly by the world.”
― Juno Dawson, The Shadow Cabinet

“It was not unreasonable, she felt, to want boys to find her appealing but for them not to seek to subjugate her.”
― Juno Dawson, The Shadow Cabinet

“After another forty-five minutes of excruciating tiptoeing around witchphobia, the Prime Minister was whisked away to cut the ribbon on a food bank that people only needed because of his government’s policies.”
― Juno Dawson, The Shadow Cabinet

“Well, if it makes you feel better, Mum wishes I wasn't a witch either, and Dad is scared of me.”
― Juno Dawson, The Shadow Cabinet

“While the cat's away, the mice will eat in the lounge without plates or cutlery.”
― Juno Dawson, The Shadow Cabinet

“Now, it seemed, everyone had family to spend their evenings with. Is that why people get married? So someone is forced to amuse you until you die?”
― Juno Dawson, The Shadow Cabinet