# The Priory of the Orange Tree  Author:: Samantha Shannon ## Highlights > Her heart was a fistful of thunder. ([Location 719](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DDGX4KY&location=719)) > “We will watch her. We will listen well. Remember why we wear blades as well as jewels.” ([Location 4605](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DDGX4KY&location=4605)) > Ead held her gaze. “So no, Sabran Berethnet. I will not bring you poison. Not now. Not ever.” The words came from a place she had tried to lock. The place where a rose had grown. ([Location 6725](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DDGX4KY&location=6725)) > Snow had fallen overnight in the north, and it lay across the fields like cream smoothed with a knife. ([Location 9677](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DDGX4KY&location=9677)) > “They are not only raised to hate fire-breathers, but our dragons,” Tané reminded him. “Knowing this, why would you sail with them?” “Perhaps you should ask yourself a different question, honored Miduchi,” he said. “Would the world be any better if we were all the same?” ([Location 11309](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DDGX4KY&location=11309)) > “They raise us to be soft as silk, distract us with luxury and wealth beyond measure, so we never rock the boat that carries us. They expect us to be so bored by our power that we let them do the ruling in our stead. Behind every throne is a masked servant who seeks only to make a puppet of the one who sits on it. ([Location 11558](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DDGX4KY&location=11558)) > It had been a year of hard realities. The walls they had built to protect their beliefs had crumbled at their feet, and Sabran had watched her faith begin to decay with them. ([Location 11976](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DDGX4KY&location=11976)) > I do not think it well that the future of any country rests on the begetting of children. A woman is more than a womb to be seeded. ([Location 13192](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DDGX4KY&location=13192)) --- Title: The Priory of the Orange Tree Author: Samantha Shannon Tags: readwise, books date: 2024-01-30 --- # The Priory of the Orange Tree  Author:: Samantha Shannon ## AI-Generated Summary None ## Highlights > Her heart was a fistful of thunder. ([Location 719](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DDGX4KY&location=719)) > “We will watch her. We will listen well. Remember why we wear blades as well as jewels.” ([Location 4605](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DDGX4KY&location=4605)) > Ead held her gaze. “So no, Sabran Berethnet. I will not bring you poison. Not now. Not ever.” The words came from a place she had tried to lock. The place where a rose had grown. ([Location 6725](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DDGX4KY&location=6725)) > Snow had fallen overnight in the north, and it lay across the fields like cream smoothed with a knife. ([Location 9677](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DDGX4KY&location=9677)) > “They are not only raised to hate fire-breathers, but our dragons,” Tané reminded him. “Knowing this, why would you sail with them?” “Perhaps you should ask yourself a different question, honored Miduchi,” he said. “Would the world be any better if we were all the same?” ([Location 11309](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DDGX4KY&location=11309)) > “They raise us to be soft as silk, distract us with luxury and wealth beyond measure, so we never rock the boat that carries us. They expect us to be so bored by our power that we let them do the ruling in our stead. Behind every throne is a masked servant who seeks only to make a puppet of the one who sits on it. ([Location 11558](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DDGX4KY&location=11558)) > It had been a year of hard realities. The walls they had built to protect their beliefs had crumbled at their feet, and Sabran had watched her faith begin to decay with them. ([Location 11976](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DDGX4KY&location=11976)) > I do not think it well that the future of any country rests on the begetting of children. A woman is more than a womb to be seeded. ([Location 13192](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07DDGX4KY&location=13192))