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SAMANTHA SMITH Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth. SAMANTHA SMITH Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good. SAMANTHA SMITH God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight. SAMANTHA SMITH London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a s... SAMANTHA SHANNON My silver cord - the link between my body and my spirit - was extremely sensitive. It was what allow... SAMANTHA SHANNON I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a ... SAMANTHA SHANNON I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obses... SAMANTHA SHANNON I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves. SAMANTHA SHANNON I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card readi... SAMANTHA SHANNON Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the ol... SAMANTHA SHANNON I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but i... SAMANTHA SHANNON I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature... SAMANTHA SHANNON I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller. SAMANTHA SHANNON I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sur... SAMANTHA SHANNON I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interac... SAMANTHA SHANNON Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you... SAMANTHA SHANNON I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to ... SAMANTHA SHANNON I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little sto... SAMANTHA SHANNON I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creat... SAMANTHA SHANNON People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' be... SAMANTHA SHANNON I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a reti... SAMANTHA SHANNON I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically... SAMANTHA SHANNON I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many ... SAMANTHA SHANNON It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight we... SAMANTHA SHANNON What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city. SAMANTHA SHANNON 'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, an... SAMANTHA SHANNON I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune ... SAMANTHA SHANNON I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being someth... SAMANTHA SHANNON I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely sel... SAMANTHA SHANNON SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hear... SAMANTHA MUMBA I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great... SAMANTHA MUMBA But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much. SAMANTHA MUMBA I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason. SAMANTHA MUMBA All I say is that I don't go out with famous men. SAMANTHA MUMBA I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies. SAMANTHA MUMBA I'm not into the whole showbiz scene. SAMANTHA MUMBA People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay. SAMANTHA MUMBA When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shie... SAMANTHA MUMBA There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blon... SAMANTHA MUMBA But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores. SAMANTHA MUMBA I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing... 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But I c... SAMANTHA ISLER I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen. SAMANTHA ISLER I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for ... SAMANTHA HARVEY When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and... SAMANTHA HARVEY As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more ... SAMANTHA HARVEY Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once ru... SAMANTHA HARVEY Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and ... SAMANTHA HARVEY With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like - any person, any world, any place, any em... SAMANTHA HARVEY It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subj... SAMANTHA HARVEY The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fas... SAMANTHA HARVEY The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it's plain weird that we love spaghetti and... SAMANTHA HARVEY With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks. SAMANTHA HARVEY I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's lif... SAMANTHA HARVEY Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate i... SAMANTHA HARVEY Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own int... SAMANTHA HARVEY The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as... SAMANTHA HARVEY I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complet... SAMANTHA HARVEY When there's change, and people fear things, they become more dogmatic in their views. They lash... SAMANTHA HARVEY Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until t... SAMANTHA HARVEY We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands i... SAMANTHA HARVEY We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind... SAMANTHA HARVEY There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just m... SAMANTHA HARVEY One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man s... SAMANTHA HARVEY I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we... SAMANTHA HARVEY What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching... 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She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ... 
She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing... 
And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she ... 
Chess lied to herself every day; it was just something she did, like taking her pills or making sure... 
She tried to tear herself away from him. The effort broke against his arms that had not felt it. Her... 
Being young was her thing, and she was the best at it. But every year, more and more girls came out ... 
Then I made her understand that, where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for he... 
She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundam... 
Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,... 
He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, ... 
The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her l... 
This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the ... 
Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. Sh... 
Eena turned aside, breathing shallowly as her mind raced with questions. She was glad he couldn’t ... 
Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he... 
She would never understand her sister. Her sister was like the weather, no, she was worse than the w... 
Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... 
She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of h... 
She shrunk into herself and waited for me to stare at her like she was gross an dirty. But I just wa... 
She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. 
My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... 
Rather than remain a sealed jar, she sought only to pour herself out to others. Everything she did m... 
The only thing that [Amaranta] did not keep in mind in her fearsome plan was that in spite of her pl... 
Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did... 
Astrid had gone to look at the burn zone. Doing the right thing.
She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ... 
But the more Emma recognised her love, the more she crushed it down, that it might not be evident, t... 
That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told h... 
She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for for... 
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now a... 
I suppose it was the end of the world for her when her husband and her baby were killed. I suppose s... 
Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but some... 
How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for w... 
Karou was mysterious. She had no apparent family, she never talked about herself, and she was expert... 
She left feeling dirty, and on the bus ride home she knew that what her uncles told her had come tru... 
Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she w... 
She was a young person of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active. It had been her fort... 
She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind o... 
Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not... 
For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a c... 
It was as bad as the summer that her mother had taken the training wheels off Coraline's bicycle;but... 
The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced out at the bleak brown buildings... 
There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand acro... 
The day she realised, it was not about the world but was all about her, she grew the wings. The day ... 
My reflections amount to a love story that is mostly made up, from memories that are mostly false, b... 
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows... 
Later Buddy told me the woman was on a drug that would make her forget she'd had any pain and that w... 
Toxic' was actually an accurate description of the feelings Clementine had so often felt in Erika's ... 
She's just come undone," her mother had whispered on the phone to her aunt Bella. It was an old coll... 
Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ... 
They were both comparative mirrors of each other. It was clear to her now more than he had used her ... 
You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely remi... 
She could feel the blood flowing within her and she felt that she must die or break forth into leave... 
Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary wa... 
She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a co... 
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Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite feeling. Pardon the seeming ... 
Did she know, could she know what it meant to him when she turned to him, when she opened herself to... 
She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she tho... 
She saw how he was staring at it, the bright red hue beneath her bonnet. She could not bear to see t... 
Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit... 
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learn... 
She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was ... 
When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, n... 
She sheltered her colors in the dark, where others were blind to see; I caught a glimpse of her last... 
You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she lov... 
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It was one thing to deal with monsters that were human in appearance. Another thing entirely to deal... 
Hindsight sucked. In fact hindsight should be assassinated. 
Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a... 
I would like to put forward a simple thesis that should no longer be at all controversial: it is now... 
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly de... 
Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But w... 
I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster. 
I was physically abused and I retaliated. 
I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do. 
I'm an outgoing girl, and I can't help the way I look. 
I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts ... 