The Crooked Mask Quotes

“Stig was right when he said, I know you want things to be black and white but sometimes they’re not. People are complicated, and so are the gods.”
― Rachel Burge, The Crooked Mask

“How does he do that - just seem to belong wherever he goes? He's so relaxed in himself that he takes up all the space around him, while mine shrinks.”
― Rachel Burge, The Crooked Mask

“That's the thing about the circus: people are excited by the prospect of danger - the thought that the trapeze artist will lose their grip; the knife find its fleshy target.”
― Rachel Burge, The Crooked Mask

“I can't explain it, but it feels like I'm looking at a creature from another world and not a man in a costume, as if the performer and the mask are one, or the mask is wearing the person instead of the other way around.”
― Rachel Burge, The Crooked Mask

“Foul unspeakable things washed up on the shore between sleep and waking, as if a trawler net has dragged through my worst fears and left them raw and bleeding for the gulls to pick.”
― Rachel Burge, The Crooked Mask