Samantha Shannon Quotes

I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me.

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.

There are days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else, because I've been transported to another universe.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

I am a bit of a daydreamer.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.

A daydream is an evasion.

I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.

I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

I liked to pretend a lot. I thought I could be anything that I wanted.

I daydream all the time.

In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these places, like a bear getting ready for hibernation. I'd close my eyes, and streets would materialize, rows of houses take shape. I could hear people's voices, feel the gentle, steady rhythm of their lives, those people so distant, whom I'd probably never know.

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to Narnia. To really go - not just in a daydream, or in a children's book, but what it would actually feel like, physically, psychologically, every other way. The idea was haunting me.

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

Daydreaming subverts the world.

I'm in my dream world.

There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.

All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.