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“She had seen those eyes in mirrors for half a century. She had seen his face in a dream of bees.

And a name escaped her before she could stop it.

'Armul.”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night

“ To freeze is an instinct shared by all living things. Think of how a deer stills when it scents a threat. Glorian kept looking at the skull, into the hollows that had once held eyes. You can conquer it... ”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night

“ If it lasts for a week or a month or a year, it will still be ours to cherish, she said. Does a flower bloom any less sweet for its brevity?

Esbar smiled.

No, she said, leaning close. Nor less beautiful. ”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night

“Fire it was, purposefully wrought - fire as makes a blade, for slaughter. Its eyes seethed with flame, not good nor evil, the sanctarian read in her mind, but also that which makes a wyrm, that is, its cunning, and its malice.”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night