The Masks and The Dancer Quotes

“You were a gift, and a perpetual comfort to an old man who didn’t deserve it. My only wish is for your happiness. Everything I’ve ever done is with you in mind. Remember that when I’m gone.”
― Bea Paige, The Masks and The Dancer

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Bea Paige, The Masks and The Dancer

“Do you believe evil exists?” “You’re asking me that question? There’s a fucking severed head nailed to the wall over there,” I say, pointing to the Baron’s head.”
― Bea Paige, The Masks and The Dancer

“There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~ Edith Wharton”
― Bea Paige, The Masks and The Dancer

“You own me, Christy. Not my brothers. Not Malik. Not my dark past. Not the ghosts that haunt me. Not the walls of this castle and the memories within them, nor the monster that still lingers inside my chest. You. Own. Me. My heart is yours. You can carve it out of my chest right here and now, and I wouldn’t stop you. Just know that it’s yours to do what you want with. It’s yours.”
― Bea Paige, The Masks and The Dancer

“That began because a woman was kind.”
Five shakes her head. “That began because a man feared a woman’s ability to heal, to do good, and so he called her a witch and hung her from a tree to prove just how evil she was. Only the true evil was the man who used fear, hate and violence to intimidate and murder.”

“Kindness started all of this,” I say adamantly.
“And kindness will end it.”
― Bea Paige, The Masks and The Dancer