Shauna Lawless > Quotes

“It’s all a lie. Can you not see it? Christians use the religion to crush those beneath them. Priests and monks take money from those who don’t have any and say the Kingdom of Heaven can be bought for a price. What god allows such things to happen?”
― Shauna Lawless, The Land of the Living and the Dead

“Sins easily forgiven of a man, lingered when commited by women.”
― Shauna Lawless, The Words of Kings and Prophets

“What gives you the right to speak—”
“The right?” My voice rose. “The air we breathe gives me the right, the soil beneath my feet. I am born of this land, just as you are.”
― Shauna Lawless, The Children of Gods and Fighting Men

“There is nothing more natural than love, even though the priests would tell you to be ashamed of it. And so, yes, I lay with your father because I wanted to…”
― Shauna Lawless, Dreams of Sorrow

“Life was for living. Even within all the sorrow and pain that I carried with me, and that Murchad carried with him, pleasure was possible. And I would take it.”
― Shauna Lawless, The Land of the Living and the Dead

“I think if you looked around, you would see bravery in many of the women here. We don't hold swords the way you do, but we are still fighting.”
― Shauna Lawless, The Words of Kings and Prophets

“Grief, I supposed, was the death of feeling. And right now, I had nothing to give him.”
― Shauna Lawless, The Children of Gods and Fighting Men

“Forgiveness had no hold on me anymore.”
― Shauna Lawless, The Words of Kings and Prophets

“My sister”
― Shauna Lawless, The Land of the Living and the Dead

“Love was as absent to me as sunshine on a rainy day, and it would be a long time before the clouds would clear.”
― Shauna Lawless, The Words of Kings and Prophets

“That was the true reason men named their swords. They wanted the guilt of killing given to someone else, but when you were the one who held the blade, there was no one else.”
― Shauna Lawless, The Land of the Living and the Dead

“As a boy I was a man, as a man I have become a ghost.”
― Shauna Lawless, Dreams of Chaos

“Nothing matters, and everything does.”
― Shauna Lawless, The Children of Gods and Fighting Men

“Why does a man have the right to die with honour, but a woman not?”
― Shauna Lawless, The Children of Gods and Fighting Men

“The new religion really was fascinating. A paradox of piety and dogma. In general, it seemed the more devout you appeared and the more confident you sounded in knowing the will of God, the more you could get away with.”
― Shauna Lawless, The Children of Gods and Fighting Men

“The bonds of friendship can be a greater bind than the threat of a sword.”
― Shauna Lawless, The Children of Gods and Fighting Men

“Men never seemed to tire of this old line. Scorned women seemed to be the root of all evil and the downfall of all good men.”
― Shauna Lawless, The Children of Gods and Fighting Men

“Pride, as always with men, was the cause of their stupidity.”
― Shauna Lawless, The Children of Gods and Fighting Men