Quotes from Storm Constantine

The moment of his fall was for closer to the present moment than millenia before.

In the darkness beyond life, pain would end.

The sky was dark, the moon occluded by clouds, yet they could see through the spectral twilight as if every rock and grain of sand exuded its own sick light.

Memories were perhaps sweeter than reality.

The sobbing echoes of the woman's song streamed away down the twisting alleys and the last particles of dust fell back on the street.

Grand plans, grand ambitions are easily reduced to ashes, whereas a small plan can sneak through to devasting effect

At once, the essence of the elements swooped down and rushed into him as a bolt of pure energy. His body jerked backward, but he did not fall. He absorbed the essence, his mouth wide in a rictus of agony.

My heart was beating so fast, I could actually hear it echoing in my ears, and my face felt on fire with excitement.

No woman had aroused him as much since Ishtahar. Perhaps she was really telling the truth about herself.

His home was a wondrous palace, wrought of light and sound, where every room had a mysterious tale to tell and strange aethers roamed the tall, echoing corridors.

Sometimes being alive feels like a dream.

I loved her so much, she was so beautiful in life, it seemed unbelievably cruel that I had to become afraid of her. I would wake screaming just as Ellony stooped over me in bed. She had cold saliva that smelled of fish. It fell onto my face.

As he ran, he stripped off his uniform, unaware of the cold. The Magravandian cloth and leather burned him like gall. It was a symbol of all that destroyed him.

He glanced at Aninka, his eyes alight with the kind of excitement she did not want to see.

We have to make good use of the tools that fall in our lap, no matter how sharp they seem to our clumsy fingers.

Soon, the great earth serpent would awake. Tamara knew that when it did, she would be a goddess. She would ride its power. Laughing.

He was eager and bouncy, like an overfriendly lion cub; tawny and golden and laced with hidden claws.

Once I had departed Hadith's presence, my awe of her had lessened but it left a patent residue behind. The thought of the pale, enchanting woman, with her hint of hidden menace, made me feel absurdly excied. I did not want to see her again, exactly, but I wanted to think about her all the time.

At his appearance, the environment around him seemed to slow to utter stillness, and become bleached of colour.

Behind my closed eyelids, the world was red and black, shot with flames and blood.

Strange, pulsing symbols appeared before his eyes, oozed past him. He neither ate nor drank nor slep, but still his strength did not diminish. It was almost as if something called to him, drawing him onward. The otherworld, perhaps.

He felt as if he was on the brink of a vast understanding-he could almost feel its intense shine within his mind, and yet the meaning evaded him. The scintillant ideas burst like shimmering bubbles of glass even as his imagination encountered them.

I heard you scream. Was it pain or pleasure? Hard to tell with that creature, isn't it?" Daniel sighed. He didn't want to argue. "It's a shame we have to part this way, Taz, but if that's how you want it to be…" "You are full of him," Taziel said. "I can see his glow on you.

Everyone in the world has a part to play in the great drama of life.