Ange

“As he guided me from the cellar, I glanced back at Arcturus. He watched me like I was a sunrise.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Dark Mirror

“You needed to forget. But I needed to remember. As I was tortured, it was your voice that kept me sane. Your face that filled my days and nights. I was in a dark room – but I had another, in my memories. The dark room that we shared in Paris. I could go there whenever I wanted. My torturers did what they pleased with my body, but I paid them no heed, with my gift to console me. In my dreams, I was still in your arms.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Dark Mirror

“Fucking mountains", she wheezed out. "Nothing but ... jumped-up hills." She clutched her side. "Taking up space for eons, being outrageously hard to climb."
I gave her a hand. "You all right there, champ?"
"No, I'm dying. Let me expire.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Dark Mirror

“those who claimed Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East were just as likely to claim that America was the oldest democracy in the world. And both claims relied on excluding whole swaths of the population living under the rule of the state.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message