Jillian

“It was customary for the vows to be taken at midnight, during the new moon, for it was in the darkest hours that companionship was needed most.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“I had always made it a rule to follow a cat. Particularly a black cat.”
― Callie Hart, Brimstone

“Art is not one great act of creation, but many small ones. When you read one of my poems, you fail to see the weeks of careful work it took me to build it – the thinking, the scratched-out words, the pages I burned in disgust. All you see, in the end, is what I want you to see. Such is politics.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“In darkness, we are naked. Our truest selves. Night is when fear comes to us at its fullest, when we have no way to fight it. It will do everything it can to seep inside you. Sometimes it may succeed-- but never think you are the night.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree