Quotes from Storm Constantine

Daniel's face looked up at him wondering, his arms around the shuddering form of Owen. They were beautiful. What had he been thinking of to abuse them? Hadn't his original purpose been to defend the children of humanity, to be their advocate? Why this?

It is like a tiny flame that cannot be stoked, for then it would be noticeable, but at least it keeps the death of belief at bay.

Your pretty songs were nothing but lies and now, because of you, your friends will perish here. I will devour them for their false trust in their deceit. Why don't you sing for me while I feast, lovely bard? I like a pretty tune.

Let me share your bed, Pharry," said Ellony. "Mine?" asked Pharinet archly. Ellony shrieked with laughter. "Pharry, what are you suggesting? Don't be so wicked!

It seemed that walls were closing around her, walls of fire.

Magravandias was a an inexorable force. The great red, purple and black banners of Madragore surged across the world, bringing war and devastation in the names of peace and God.

All gods have their Chosen Ones, who through devotion and piety believe themselves impervious to divine plague or curse.

The man's words somehow unflexed him in time and space. He felt momentarily unreal, as if his very existence depended on the next words this stranger would utter. He had to make a noise, take some action, to dispell the terrifying sensation.

Avirzah'e bowed in my direction, perhaps a little too extravagantly to be sincere.

As it happens, I partook of a very fine meal last night which filled me with energy and strength.

Beneath the awesome lament of the cities was an undersong of human terror.

He hated the false intimacy, the insincere concern.

Daniel Cranton would be offered to the flame; the innocent, newly-awakened, brimming with psychic energy, untapped and fresh. Daniel.

You are like the waves, Pharinet thought. Your feelings of anger and jealousy ebb and flow. At high tide, you could kill. At low tide, you repent.

People became conscious in dreams or waking reality, of the empire spreading out to every quarter of the world, and the most aware realized that for every subjugated realm there was a potential rebellion and the conquering wave that had surged outward might well reverse direction.

Everything I had was taken from me and I was shaped into a monster!

I want you, Daniel, to be with me. Taste the fatal apple; I have held it for eternity. It is humanity's curse, but if you want the knowledge, you can't avoid plucking the forbidden fruit.

I make no distinctions concerning gender, at least not when desire is invoked.

We do no possess the luxury of being able to wait patiently for the bud to flower.

Last night was last night. Rayojini was a loner; she did not thirst for a satellite.

The truth is there. Work it out.

We had ben away too long, caught up in the wine of the world, drinking ourselves into heady euphoria.

I, and your other supporters, despised Anu's hollow sanctimony. We were filled with a fire to rebel against all that Kharsag stood for. You made us see the truth, Shem, the lie of it. You were our glorious leader. We would have followed you anywhere.

A place like this should not exist in such a cruel world. To find it there was to have hope restored.