“That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.”
“Who needs a face when the masks in life are endless?”
“Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.”
“It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.”
“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”
“She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.”