Mary

“Arcturus, as your friend, I think it's my duty to inform you that you're not a twelfth-century monk.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mask Falling

“The night we met, I had thought he was the most beautiful and terrible thing I had ever laid eyes on. There was nothing terrible before me now. Sleep had stripped him of his Rephaite armour. He was in the same position, features soft and unburdened, one hand on the sheets between us.
In silence, I turned my hand so it lay palm up, and the shadows of my fingers fell across his knuckles. Then I drifted back to sleep.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mask Falling

“Who can break you now, Black Moth, now there is nothing left to break?”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mask Falling

“The state ceases to impose the shackles of daily oppression, but helps people realize their hopes and dreams. And Man is not just a cog in the system, not just a playing role, but a free Creature.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead