Quotes from Storm Constantine

Looking back, Daniel could see he was seduced from the start.

As one, the silent gathering slid out onto the balcony, human patrons in pursuit.

Emma realised how beautiful Daniel had become. In Little Moor, she'd seen him as a gawky boy, but now his svelte body was that of a very attractive young man.

Why have only one river goddess when you could have forty?

I would honour you, young terranaut, so lie down passively while I acquaint myself with the exquisite contours of your flesh.

Strange how people so seldom said what they felt.

He had mocked her, shown her his power, and she, believing herself immune, had fallen beneath his spell.

Fire drakes dwell in the pits," she told him. "Sometimes they demand sacrifice." "What are fire-drakes?" "Elemental creatures, like dragons. They breathe the fire and feast on the minerals found in its wake.

Shem was an unpredictable creature, he could not be relied on.

The elemental forces must be invoked and combined. Whoever controls this force will have the power to create great change. I have picked four individuals to represent the elements. You personify the element of air, for the dragon known as the cockatrice.

The house wove a spell over her, as if melancholy dreams drifted down from the cobwebbed corners.

Slowly the sense of ritual stole around the smoky chamber and entered my mind and body.

Walking towards the signal, where the sun hung high in the sky, the traveller was a solitary figure in an uncluttered scene. He felt as if this was the ending of something, not the beginning. He could walk away out of existence. Yet his boots made a solid, satisfactory sound against the road and his flesh felt real and comfortable about his bones. He was a good performer.

Owen." Othman stroked his face, rubbed his arm. "Don't fight me. Lily hasn't. Lily knows me now. Lily trusts me.

You're important, Daniel, you're Shemyaza's vizier. They want you in their clutches, but they won't risk your death.

There's a time and place for everything, and you are surely in the right place at the moment.

Life would become difficult again for a while, but I knew I'd have the strength to face it.

The woman smelled of heavy Oriental scent, which, to him, failed to conceal the clinging aroma of flesh past its prime.

Othman told me things about us-he thinks, or knows, there's something different about us. He wants us, Lil. Don't flatter yourself he's in love with you, or anything. He wants more than that-from both of us. So don't go falling for him. It could be dangerous.

We have to take him soon, Ninka, or rather I do.

As the warm and living palpitation diminished into the cold and silent roches, the dwindling group of unroched saw their hopes become fears. All had succumbed eventually. All. Until Casmeer had been left alone in the city, listening to only a sour wind and the quiet inner throb of his own grief.

Any priest could make a god for you, on a scrap of parchment with some spit and a smudge of black ink. He would name it for you and then it might act in your favor. If you ate the god, or rather the parchment bearing his name, you might have visions or be able smite an enemy with a thought. You could also banish demons who had procured temporary lodgings in your body.

The earth and the city had become one, a mutant creation. Ays saw figures moving on the hanging streets. He saw white faces at shadows. Were these his people?

I want this man and the things he might teach me.