Quotes from Storm Constantine

There were too many unexplained noises, too many echoes, too many vacilliating shadows.

Lonely Ays, imprisoned in an icy structure he had built around his heart. Casmeer did not like this person, but neither could he abandon him. Not yet. Ays had a story, a life. It had to be written. A history had formed for Ays, a changeable history. Where had it come from?

The Magravandians ruined my life before you became a part of it. We share that heritage. We are brothers in it.

Was this death, this unending plunge? Was there nothing more to it than this?

By day, Casmeer worried that he was becoming too involved in his work. He realised the boundary between fantasy and reality was growing blurred. Occasionally, but with increasing regularity, he thought about giving up on his creation. And yet, it had given his empty life some meaning. How could he live without it now?

The Leckerys are not fit consorts for people such as the Palindrakes, whereas we of the Malagash dynasty eminently are.

Humanity's destiny is to become more like us; Daniel is the symbol of this.

My city could not help but be conducive to creative thought. Who knows what new myths might spring from the juxtaposition of so many fabulous designs?

I enjoyed teaching you. I enjoyed your sense of wonder. Now I feel some of that is destroyed by truth, by awareness.

He had no way of discerning the difference between true regality and a parody.

You are still beautiful. There are many functions for a man such as yourself in the destiny of the world. People love beauty. They worship it. Can't you see how useful you could be?

There was only one thing to do; enter the spirit of the place.

At last! She would see the face of Resenence Jeopardy. She would look into his eyes, and they would be open for her. Something momentous would happen, the reason for her journey, her commitment to the idea of an unknown man would be revealed to her.

The traveller's attire and long hair probably suggested untold dissipations to this conventional creature, who would scorn all males who had not enjoyed army life at some time. Enchanting delusion! The traveller envisaged many interesting encounters would be had with the landlord; his name was Mr. Eager.

For several minutes, I leaned upon the rail, gazing out across the city of Sacramente, breathing in its riot of scents; the hot flesh-smell beneath me, the flower haze above.

He drifted into his memories then, and Sarpanita's mind was filled with dusty images, like ancient paintings hung too long in the light. She fell into the dream of them, lived them; saw Shemyaza as a young man, heard his laughter. He was beautiful in the alien way of the Annage, with the incredible height and in his long, serpent face. She knew that Penemue had loved him as more than a brother. He showed her their love-making and she could witness it without shyness.

Well, when Kashday met Helen, we had no idea what a viper he was bringing into our nest. She was bright, too intelligent to be a dependent.

She found herself wondering what the world would have been like if Shemyaza and the others had never disobeyed the laws of Kharsag and taken human wives.

Where I bleed, he bleeds. As he wounded me, he wounded himself.

You chose the wrong path, Wilfish. You could have been with me, which we both know is what you truly desired.

Abroad little towns seemed to possess a bustling other-life, like insects below the grass. There were often mysteries to uncover, mysteries that could be cherished like gems unexpectedly discovered in a rock that had seemed uniformly grey. Here, the social structure demanded a different kind of behaviour-upright, polite, mannered-but that usually meant mysteries, when they were coaxed from hiding, were all the more delightful and perverse.

There is more truth in the old stories than you know.

His interest was pricked by the man's attractiveness, but he also felt disappointed that his private meeting with Eve was curtailed.

Taziel looked at Daniel, and reached for his hand. He seemed so young and vulnerable.