The Silver Mask Quotes
"Prison was not like Call expected it to be."
"In all the time he’d been here, not a single person had come to visit him."
"Every day, he was taken to a windowless, white-walled room where three Assembly members grilled him about his life."
"None of them saw him as a fifteen-year-old, as a kid. They all thought of him as the Enemy of Death."
"Secrets hurt the keeper more than you think."
"Call, who had grown bored over the last six months, made a face just to see the freaked-out guard get more freaked-out."
"I know you say that you can’t remember anything about being Constantine Madden, but what if you try harder?"
"It was easy to rack up Evil Overlord Points in prison."
"Call might have found this flattering if it wasn’t so clear that they thought he was deliberately hiding this aspect of his character from them."
"I want to believe you, but you’ve lied to me for a long time."
"You’re my son, whatever else you are, you are always and also my child."
"But he would never have said he deserved to be punished for his brother’s death. It was always someone else’s fault."
"The Alkahest, air shimmering around it to indicate some kind of magical defense."
"Master Joseph smiled at them, like everything was going perfectly well."
"But this wasn’t just a lot of points on his Evil Overlord list. This pretty much was the list."
"Call felt a wave of relief. He was glad it wasn’t just him."
"You could have told me at any time that Constantine Madden lived inside you. How long did you know?"
"Sometimes we have to let people go. Sometimes things happen that can't be fixed."
"I’m not angry. Not at Tamara, and not at you, either, Call. I just feel like — like I have to concentrate really hard to pull myself together."
"Everyone has to die eventually. I don’t see how us dying for the Magisterium helps."
"You’ve changed what it is to be a mage. Oh, Call, you’ve changed everything. No longer will Constantine be thought of as a monster. His legacy will be honored. Your legacy."
"The Aaron who was our best friend never sounded like that."
"He’s not going to come back from that cheerful and optimistic!"
"Back when he’d been at the Magisterium, Call had known right from wrong."
"He woke up what felt like a few moments later, to an explosion."
"Call threw himself against the window, scrabbling at it."
"The soul is the soul. Its essence doesn’t change."
"I am Constantine Madden! I am the Enemy of Death! And I say this is over!"
"Children shouldn’t be cursed with so much power."
"He’s always been Constantine Madden and he always will be."
"And at least Aaron could tell. That had to mean something."
"And then, suddenly, that noise was subsumed by the growl of engines."
"You may have Constantine’s soul but you’re not in charge."