Quotes from Storm Constantine

The Parzupheim are antique beings of an almost ethereal appearance and, to those in our first cycle, seemed distinctly alien. History lives in their eyes; it is said they can remember the truth of the world, when they come through from the other place.

An urge to laugh fought to express itself in Pharinet's narrow chest. Everna looked so dramatic, all wild eyes, hawk nose, and flailing hair.

Don't you know when a bard lies he commits murder? He murders truth, and from the lips of a king's bard, that kills part of the world.

You must always talk to me. My ears will hear and my heart will heal you.

Life moved so quickly. You didn't realize it until you paused to reflect.

Dressed in black, he reclined in the shell like a huge cat; his burnished hair a pale glory in the lady-light of the moon. The man was, or at least strongly resembled, my dream phantom, Beth Metatronim. He was holding Keea in his arms.

Your soul is old, Daniel, yet irrespressibly young. Stay by your master, for he needs you.

I do not look through the eyes of love, and you wouldn't respect me if I did.

A man who turned away from women could not, in Meggie's eyes, have magical power, yet Daniel clearly did.

Death is a trickster whose sleeves we thought we had shaken free of fatal cards, and yet now he comes to trespass on our courts.

Ahhh," breathed the serpent, "to be desired by princes and kings. I am you, Tayven. I am the snake inside your pretty skin that bit them and poisoned their hearts.

The demon laughed, its grotesque face hanging inches above Daniel's own. Its tongue lashed out like a thick, wet worm and licked Daniel's face; its saliva stank of rotting flesh.

It's like having a demon in a bottle. It's power, Jordan but, like a demon, unpredictable.

This was how it should be, the close relationship between apprentice and master. The learning, the wonder of it.

The power is in the land and in our blood, but we have lost that special connection with the sea. It has been severed.

A time had come, or was coming. He could feel drawing closer, feel its predator breath on his back. So he must face, and perhaps take strength from the power that had awakened here. e must access it fully. Perhaps then, the gate of his dreams and nightmares would open and the void be sensed within himself could be filled.

She found she could smile and converse merrily, almost as if she had borrowed a ghost to talk for her and installed it in her body, where she could watch it from the inside.

Merlac's arresting mélange of sweet and bitter flavors was still a novelty to Valraven.

Your magic is not the only kind.

Men and women who'd remained in the shadows came forth, bringing their maledictions with them.

Behind every conversation, every shadowed glance, every stone on the road, every bud overhead, lurked a hidden threat: that the climax of Shem's task would be his own sacrifice.

Lily and Owen, he wanted to keep near him, and would not surrender them.

You have lost control and will do whatever you can to salvage your position. This is why you are so calm in the face of all that's happened today.

Owen's eyes, when he turned his face, were guarded. He had no hunger, particularly, but a certain curiosity. Othman could see ideas and desires swimming unseen beneath the surface of Owen's conscious mind. These would have to be brought out.