Ead Duryan Quotes

“Reading,' Ead said lightly. 'A dangerous pastime.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“All the world is a cage in a young girl's eyes.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“That is the problem with stories, child. The truth in them cannot be weighed.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“I realized, that she had been spoon-fed a story from the day she was born. She had been taught no other way to be. And yet, I saw that despite everything, some part of her was self-made. This part, small as it appeared at first, was forged in the fire of her own strength, and resisted her cage. And I understood...that this part was made of steel. The part who she truly was.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Ead knew the scent of a secret. She wore it like a perfume.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Let us not think of the future this night. It is not yet dawn. We still have time for airy hopes.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“You have been away from the tree for too long. You are a root, beloved. You must drink, or you will wither.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“It was all she has ever wanted. To be a Red Damsel, a slayer-in-waiting, was the dream of every girl born into the Priory.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“How many times have we damned each other now?"
"Not nearly enough.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree