Цитаты из книги Бару Корморан, предательница

"Mother," she began, stumbling, trying again: "I`m going to find another way to fight them. Be patient. Be strong. Don`t-- don`t waste yourself on futility. they are vast, and no count of spears can change that." "You chose one kind of strength, daughter," Pinion said. "I choose another."

"The tide is coming in," he said. "The ocean has reached this little pool. There will be turbulence, and confusion, and ruin. This is what happens when something small joins something vast. But--" Later she would hold to this moment, because it felt that he had offered her something true and grown-up and powerful rather than a lie to shield her. "When the joining is done there will be a sea for you to swim in."

"You can be anything you want in the Empire of Masks!" Cairdine Farrier, grown fat these past few years on island life, tugged affectionately on her ear. "Man and woman, rich and poor, Stakhieczi or Oriati or Maia or Falcrest born -- in our Imperial Republic you can be what you desire, if you are disciplined in your actions and rigorous in your thoughts. That`s why it`s an Empire of Masks, dear. When you wear a mask, your wits matter."

She liked his advice better than Pinion`s, because it was full of things to accomplish now rather than things to avoid forever.

I must learn why this happened to Salm, Baru thought. I must understand it, so I can stop it from ever happening again. I will not cry. I will understand.

A PROMISE This is the truth. You will know because it hurts.

Her thoughts ran in cannibal circles.

Everyone was someone else’s instrument.

Her fury had nothing else to eat and so it began to eat her.