Full Fathom Five (Craft Sequence, #3)

by Max Gladstone

you can’t escape yourself, and you’re the only thing that hurts you in the long run.”

Claude had described Penitence like this: The statue directed your mind. You saw what it believed you should see. You did what it believed you should do, until your will and the statue’s merged. Then, at last, it let you go.

One of the most awful things that I have read about.