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The Priory of the Orange Tree

Samantha Shannon

Top 10 Best Quotes

“No woman should be made to fear that she was not enough.”

“We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.”

“Reading,' Ead said lightly. 'A dangerous pastime.”

“I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.”

“I would live alone for fifty years to have one day with you.”

“All the world is a cage in a young girl's eyes.”

“Some truths are safest buried. Some castles best kept in the sky. There's promise in tales that are yet to be spoken.”

“To be kin to a dragon, you must not only have a soul of water. You must have the blood of the sea, and the sea is not always pure. It is not any one thing. There is darkness in it, and danger, and cruelty. It can raze great cities with its rage. Its depths are unknowable; they do not see the touch of the sun. To be a Miduchi is not to be pure, Tané. It is to be the living sea. That is why I chose you. You have a dragon’s heart.”

“But when the heart grows too full, it overflows. And mine, inevitably, overflows on to a page.”

“When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own.”

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