Quotes from Storm Constantine

This man looked like Khaster yet in many ways he was entirely dissimilar. If any thing, this was what Khaster should always have been: tougher, more humorous.

Practical problems are not within the scope of my interest.

I would prefer to be liked by a woman who looks like her, Varencienne thought. She looks interesting, yet she is jealous of me, perhaps in the same way Bayard is jealous of Palindrake. How will this end? Will I win her over, or will she destroy me, push me from the battlements, poison me, or have me killed by a brigand? Perhaps we will always be enemies until we are old, or perhaps she will marry and move away.

Mikha'il and his kind, could only be statues, icons in this world. We could not admit they were actually real.

You have my body, you have my heart, you even have my mind, but the spirit's another matter. We're on different levels there." "We don't have to be." "Enough, Tay," Khaster said. "You must leave it. Let's enjoy what time we have together here.

Oh, Lucien, Lucien, we are so entwined! We are one another, the same person.

Taparak is a city of silicon and stone, shaped as if by an artist's hands. It was my home too, in the beginning.

Ewan Famber had simply been a distant, glamorous icon to his daughter and very possibly, Ari reasoned, once she was old enough to consider it, to his wife as well.

He readied for the hand of the demon who rode him, held it tight until the nails broke the skin. He had already learned that sex conjured images in his head, and this time there were unbelievably vivid. He sensed that the man who possessed him wore the aspect of a demon like a garment. Within, in ignorance, he was a being of light, and the commerce of their flesh was sacred. If Daniel concentrated on this aspect, it became more real in his mind.

He looked at the girl of hidden colours and saw a few of her paths, radiating off, diminishing glows.

What he saw in you made him afraid, for you were a dark mirror.

Her daughter was not related in blood to Ellony Leckery, yet it seemed as if she'd somehow managed to inherit her namesake's rather fey nature. Pharinet, Valraven's sister, insisted young Ellony was far stronger, braver, and more robust than the original, but there was no doubt she was highly sensitive, and sometimes this affected her badly.

I will not ask you to trust me. All I ask is that you dare to dream.

I have shed my pride, along with many other things during the course of this journey. I'm awake, alive, full of feelings and thoughts. They are mine. I am not ashamed of them. I want to be. I want to be part of this world, not a spectator. I want to be real.

More than anything, he liked to experience the effect he had on other people.

How could he curse her? It was impossible. What his master loved, he loved.

A renegade burned out among the stars last night.

One moment of lapsed concentration and the tide of years would come crashing in, obliterating everything.

Melandra felt the moist heat of the woman's sweet, spicy breath upon her lips. Her whole body tingled as if it was being stroked by loving hands. Melandra closed her eyes. Her lips met those of the nameless woman and for a timeless, endless moment, they kissed like lovers.

I know you think we don't need Daniel, and that I am capable of doing what he does myself, but he represents our aim and what the results of success should be. A flowering.

He will shape a new god, in the image of his own fear, and he will make resentful enemies, where before there were only resigned puppets.

His way might be the right way. It is certainly one way. Why not let him proceed and see what happens?

I will always love you. It's unconditional. There's not cost attached, I expected nothing from you, but I hope you can glean a small comfort from it, knowing at least someone in the world cares.

He looked like a dead saint, lying there on the bed. Was it the Grigori beauty coming through in him now, this translucence, this sense of inner fire, which shone through his fine-boned face, or had Daniel coaxed this new beauty from him?