“She accepts the world as it is and the world accepts her thus. She is not mastered. What is done to her cannot confine what she will do.” StrongStrengthBattleWarriorWillpowerSailorWeaponUnyieldingMasterless Book:The Monster Baru Cormorant Source: The Monster Baru Cormorant
“No living thing ever defeated Tain Hu in battle. Only the tide could fight her. Only the moon and the sea together could bring her down.” LoveSeaStrengthBattleMoonFightWillpowerUnyieldingTideUnbending Book:The Monster Baru Cormorant Source: The Monster Baru Cormorant
“Tain Shir walks the deck of RNS Sulane between the bombs and incendiaries and steel-tipped barbs. A weapon among weapons but she alone is free. The tragedy of the knife is the hilt. The tragedy of the crossbow is the trigger. Shir has neither. She cannot be gripped nor fired. She is unmastered. The sailors are rude with her. So be it. Etiquitte is the domain of those whose power is conditional upon the respect of others, and Shir is unconditional. If she drifted alone in the void beyond the moon or if she walked among the monarchs of the ancient Cheetah Palaces she would not be altered in her capabilities or her intentions, for not one truth of her resides within a relationship to any other thing.” WarRelationshipsStrengthColdBattleSoldierSailorWeapon Book:The Monster Baru Cormorant Source: The Monster Baru Cormorant