Quotes from S.P. Somtow

Ideas themselves were sensual things to him.

You are a king, she whispered from behind her veils, but you are also a man. Men burn but women smolder; always we are the stronger, and your subjugation of us is an illusion.

Bleeding hearts were the easiest to confuse.

The word bara has no gender," I said. "And the world elohim might be plural. What if the real meaning was, 'In the beginning, she created the gods?

I know there is a special bond between us, one that the others envy and resent; it is because she and I both stand at the gateway, I of my life, she of her death, and we both know that it is a revolving door.