The Song Rising
Samantha Shannon
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You have risen from the ashes before. The only way to survive, " he said, "is to believe you always will.”
“Never allow yourself to believe you should be silent.”
“When you dream of change, it shines bright, like fire, and burns away all the rot that came before it. It's swift and inexorable. You cry for justice, and justice is done. The world stands with you in your fight. But if there was one thing I had learned in these last few weeks, it was that change had never been that simple. That kind of revolution existed only in daydreams.”
“We like to think we’re brave, but in the end, we’re only human.”
“The only way to survive is to believe you always will.”
“I imagined, too. And so imagination became my nemesis; my mind created monsters out of nothing.”
“What I will tell you is that you cannot force yourself to mourn. Sometimes, the best way to honour the dead is to simply keep living.”
“Permission to disregard your orders, Underqueen." "Permission not granted. Permission categorically denied.”
“War has often been called a game, with good reason. Both have combatants. Both have sides. Both carry the risk of losing.”
“She was adamant that any organisation that labelled one group of people as evil would eventually do the same to others. That to treat any one person as less than human was to cheapen the very substance of humanity.”
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