“If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.”
“the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.”
“Doubt is like dye. Once it spread into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.”
“You cannot stain a black coat”
“We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.”
“The hafts of the tools were stained black with th sweat of us all, our contributions, black and white alike.”