Quotes from Storm Constantine

Sensuality oozed from her straining limbs.

I have experienced perfect love, but felt driven to destroy it. Strange. Just didn't feel right. Felt too good, I suppose. Perhaps I destroyed it before it destroyed me.

I like to have room for my thoughts and the silence to think them in.

Every movement, every glance, every low-pitched word is a work of art. Yes, they are performers, too, like me.

You should know by now that this time of year is not one when we pale-skinned interlopers can walk at ease in the treacherous labyrinth of this witch of cities.

The dragon is the spirit of the world, inherent in every living thing, and even in inanimate objects. Its claw is deadly. It can rake out the eyes of a nation, sunder its heart.

My future, I feel, is narrow, and I would like my story to be carried out into the world.

Your dilemma is that you do not trust yourself, which is why you stare into darkness. You have been so close to the answer, walked the ground where it lay absorbed by the stones, yet did not recognise it.

The man was canny, but then he had not lost a son.

The air around them shimmered with a sense of immenence.

From what I can gather, there's quite a lot you don't like talking about!

I like you, Lahash. I find you attractive. Yet I looked at you beside him, and you are like a pinprick of light to his sun. That is the legacy of having loved him.

The air was still full of Avirzah'e's perfume; an eastern, exotic scent. I noticed Beth sniff and grimace.

The Mewts were perfect subjects, who had accepted their Magravandian conquerors philosophically, yet always there was the feeling that things were going on in private and one day the plan would be revealed. It would catch them all unawares.

I trust only myself-ourselves. We must travel and find ourselves a soulscaper, Gimel, a soulscaper suited to our needs. It has gone on too long, come too close. The sickness breathes upon our necks. I, for one, can wait no longer for others to act.

Whatever moments of unity they might have shared when they came out of the water had gone now. Secrets had changed them, unspoken words.

Trust you?" Varencienne laughed coldly. "I would as soon trust a shadow on the wind.

You are an ingenuous little terranaut, who is having a series of grubby adventures.

The village was a sanctuary, a time capsule, in which she could conceal herself.

He sounded sceptical, but Othman sensed the hope in his words, that dreary, desperate hope. He smiled.

I am castrated by my own deliquencies," Shem said. "Not even with you can I overcome them. The thought of a kiss turns my stomach, yet you are a lovely creature.

Every building sported grinning gargoyles, simpering saints or representations of fantastic beasts.

I shall never forget how he paused and turned, looked back over his shoulder at me. His eyes, his face were full of secrets and humor. I felt as if the arrow of the sun had pierced my heart. His beauty seemed doomed, somehow.

They giggled at my inquiries, shaking their heads, grabbing hold of my hands and whirling me 'round in their midst. My voice simply blew away from me.