Quotes from Storm Constantine

I'm afraid we have mislaid our esteemed leader.

By closing your eyes and forming images of your choice, you begin to control your imagination. Like dreaming, when you visualize you should be able to use all of your senses to experience what you 'see around you.

Magrast was like someone's version of hell; there was opulance and luxury, but a dark, rotten heart to it. So far, Khaster had only glimpsed the other Magrast, but he sensed it was there. The eyes of the whores, both male and female, who haunted the mazelike streets, oozed a knowledge that was not just sexual. Khaster perceived a veiled invitation: I can show things beyond your dreams or nightmares. Come to me, succumb. Learn. Then pay.

Our immortal blood, while not so potent as to grant immortality to humankind can, if imbibed on a regular basis, at least double their lifespan.

Once the ritual of the coronation ended, the Parzupheim seemed far more relaxed. They believed, Daniel realised, that Shemyaza was now wholly theirs; their Messiah, the saviour of the world.

It was a hideous parody of when Taropat had passed his essence to Khaster. Tayven felt the serpent's breath writhing madly within him. Pulses of energy coursed through his flesh. He felt as if his body would burst. He was not strong enough to control it.

The man was grinning widely, in a way that suggested he was being condescending. He was handsome, with a look of the rogue about him. Ays immediately sensed danger, as perhaps had Bereftiel.

I was still chasing shadows, but I thought I understood what cast them.

The forest is like a vast brain full of little brain cells, and in each cell is a thought. The thoughts are witches, sorcerers and mystics. It is an odd community, and it took me a while to get used to it myself.

She thinks she has my measure, he thought, but she's not wholly clear about it.

Humanity without our presence in their midst, would be like the world without sun or moon.

The simple act of visualization can enable you to change reality.

He is a much more civilized face for our beliefs than the wild, free spirit of the raw element." "You mean the fire-drakes?" He studied her. "I feel them," he said, "as you feel the creatures of your own element. There should be fusion, not estrangement between them. That is the way to true power.

Shadows pulsed on the edge of my vision; I experienced a great feeling of imminence. It was like wings over my head; wings I knew too well.

At the beginning of any magical working, take few minutes to concentrate on your breathing. This helps to alter your state of consciousness and also improves the flow of life energy within the body.

Since the death of Saska's elder sister, Dimara Corey, the previous winter, Niska had taken on her aunt's position as Merante, or High Priestess of the Sisterhood of the Dragon. She was young for the title, but of all the women involved, the most mystical.

Sexual partners who dropped you without a word caused the most horrible of self-doubts.

She had not come all this way to die like this, without even confronting the object of her pain and love.

There was something about the swagger in her walk that alerted him. What was Sofia's agenda?

We tolerate so much more than is healthy from those who are beautiful.

Long ruddy rays touched the surface of the lake, where black swans haunted the shores, shrouded among rigid spears of reds. The swans sang to the approaching night, and to Khaster, it sounded like a lament for the end of the world.

If anyone could penetrate our disguise in the world, they could.

Oh, I see, you care about the world. You green little queen!

Her whole body was sick of him, sore and bored and sick.