“My mind drifted to a day when I had found a smoked-glass shew stone at the black market. Claiming its polished beauty, knowing I would be executed if I was ever found with it in my possession. I had kept it because it was beautiful. Because holding it was an act of defiance.”
- Samantha Shannon, The Mask Falling
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“But there was no normal. There never had been. Normal and natural were the greatest lies we had ever created - we humans, with our little minds.”
- Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season
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