The Mime Order Quotes

“Change a word or two, even a single letter, and you change the entire story.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“Some revolutions change the world in a day. Others take decades or centuries or more, and others still never come to fruition. Mine began with a moment and a choice.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“Isn’t it wonderful, how words and paper can embroil us so? We are witnessing a miracle, dear heart.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“Writing didn't carry the same risks as speaking. You couldn't be shouted down or stared at. The page was both a proxy and a shield.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“Dance and fall.
Like a puppet. All those years of dancing.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“It’s rare that a story begins at the beginning. In the grand scheme of things, I really turned up at the beginning of the end of this one. After all, the story of the Rephaim and Scion started almost two hundred years before I was born - and human lives, to Rephaim, are as fleeting as a single heartbeat.
Some revolutions change the world in a day. Others take decades or centuries or more, and others still never come to fruition. Mine began with a moment and a choice. Mine began with the blooming of a flower in a secret city on the border between worlds.
You’ll have to wait and see how it ends.
Welcome back to Scion.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“Our lifelines will meet only when the aether sees fit. That may not be often. It can never to always.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order