Quotes from Storm Constantine

My easy conviction that everything that had happened had only been the product of my imagination was shattered now.

Louis did not feel completely at ease with the man, there was something very odd and almost sinister about him. But at the same time, Othman possessed a quality which made people want to spend time in his company. Perhaps it was simply charisma.

She seemed less interested in the fact that Daniel had met a man, that that it had allowed her diversions of her own.

The voice of the goddess, the priestess, was nourishment, dripping with nectar, dark and holy. Terrifying succour.

He is shown as a submissive consort, but that was hardly the case. He is as invisible and quick as the wind.

These lips had spoken words into the primal chaos of the world; they had sculpted sound into matter, darkness into light.

Was his purpose in being here simply to find a new, more impulsive side to himself? He would be the first to admit that might be an improvement.

The first experience of the inner realm is impossible to describe, but the feelings it involes are those of terror, wonder, and sheer disbelief.

Louis experienced a tremor of unease. He was at this man's mercy now.

We're infected, both of us. We are his followers, whatever our conscious minds try to tell us. Our only defense is that we should be aware of that.

Over their relatively short acquaintance, Tamara had learned the Grigori woman liked to keep secrets, to maintain the balance of power between them.

His honest feeling was that he wanted to lean against Varian's legs, like a dog needing the comfort of its master's hand. Rather than perform a series of social manoeuvers, he simply obeyed the instinct and sat down. The fact that he felt relaxed doing this surprised him greatly.

You have a secret eye inside your head that sees inside people's hearts. Learn how to open it, for you well need it.

For a moment, she thought of Varencienne and an unfamilar pang clenched her heart. My daughter, she thought. Where is she? Will she ever forgive me for this?

Please don't get angry. I know this must sound very peculiar." "Peculiar? Sounds like something out of a horror film. You want me to suck your blood? What do you think I am?" "You're disabled," Othman answered simply. "And desperate. You want vitality. You want strength and agility. Youth. You want Barbara Eager.

She would not give herself to this man completely. He had a lot more to prove to her before she'd do that.

Lily found herself wondering whether his story was genuine. Perhaps he only wanted it to be. A sad chord sounded in her heart. He seemed at once lonely and deluded, waiting for the saviour he called Azazel. Lily felt Shem wold only laugh at him. No, she thought bitterly. He'll seduce him, then laugh.

Many magical traditions work with the eastern belief that there are seven energy centres in the human body, each displaying a pure, vibrant colour of the spectrum. These energy centres are known as chakras, and the condition of the energy within them has direct effects upon our health and well-being.

What significance could the mythical conflict of angels have to people who daily had to fight for their lives?

How could the same nose, mouth and eyes appear handsome in one man, merely plain in another?

Legends say that Foy banished the cockatrice, but in essence he just hid from her.

Valraven Palindrake must seek the way of light, for only then can past wounds be healed.

Owen saw a male shape come into the hall behind Barbara, shadowy. It did not sound like Louis, neither did the outline look like him. But as he came towards the door, Owen realised this was Daniel's father, but changed almost beyond recognition. Othman had done this. He glanced at Barbara. Both of them were Othman's now.

There were elements of Owen in Jack; the litheness, the clever sarcasm, the apartness from Daniel that meant only later you'll be mine.