Andrew Jaden

“I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant

“Good-bye, she thinks. Good-bye, kuye lam. I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant

“I have committed a terrible crime,” she said, voice firm, controlled, machined to a polish. “So terrible that I feel I can do anything, commit any sin, betray any trust, because no matter what ruin I make of myself, it cannot be worse than what I have already done.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant

“WHEN she was alone again Baru snuffed out all the candles and thus hidden from herself she tried to let herself weep in fear. Still it would not come. She had built the dams too strong, polished the gears too perfectly. Bargained too well. She sat in the dark and fell through the hollow of herself for a time. But helplessness came uneasily to her.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant