Kathleen

“It’s hard wearing our differences with pride when the world looks at them with contempt.”
― R. Raeta, Pits & Poison: These Godly Lies

“Wearing her skin shouldn’t be an act of bravery—shouldn’t be an obstacle to overcome—but it is. It still is.”
― R. Raeta, Pits & Poison: These Godly Lies

“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

“It kills me that I’m never going to hear you call me little dreamer again,’ I admitted. ‘I’d have decked anyone else, but it made me feel like I could be smaller with you. Not in worth or importance, but … like I didn’t have to stretch myself so far, to be so much. I didn’t have to be the Pale Dreamer or Black Moth or the Underqueen or Flora Blake. Every time you held me, you gathered all those people into one. With you, I could just be Paige.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Dark Mirror