Quotes from Storm Constantine

Just about every system magic advocates the use of a magical diary. It is important to record the results of exercises, workings and rituals, not only so you can see a progression in your work, but also as a reference book should you need to look back and repeat anything.

Well, what I wanted was a little peace to commune with the spirit of the god, and I find my meditations violated by a prancing soulscaper.

Perhaps there comes a time when a chink in the universe opens up, and a blinding clarity comes through. It is chance, I think, not design.

The clues were there all along, but we'd denied our past and shut ourselves away from the truth.

I've dreamed of the sensuous, secret-shrouded lands of antiquity, where the nights are filled with perfume and the tantalizing slither of silk against skin. In these places, the incubi and the succubae of the imagination wake up and walk.

The prince's group had a teenage boy with them, a girlish creature, clearly a carnal toy. He was a pretty thing with long white blond hair and the eager, willing manner of a puppy. He smiled, laughed, pushed back his hair flirtatiously.

The serpent'll have you. He likes tender flesh. I like to watch.

Music and laughter in the valley called him back, but the summons was weak.

The place was not like Caradore; the feeling was entirely different. Caradore was raw, as if the mountains were still young. Recolletine seemed older, more serene. It could be a place of healing, yes, but Khaster did not feel his spirit stir to the insistent throb of energy in the earth. There were no stark pure winds here, no pure demanding sky.

The moon sailed up the star-shot sky and the air colled towards the graveyard hours beyond the midnight chilling my skin through my lace stole.

When she thought of the emperor, she could not imagine his ancestors involved in dark or magical deeds. He seemed so light and golden. And yet there was the dragon dream. She remembered the feelings it had inspired within her, and suddenly the secret history seemed much more credible.

Fineas Rigg approached him. Ays had a horrible feeling of recognition, which had nothing to do with appearances, or any kindling of memory. There was something else through which he and Rigg were akin, and Ays far from liked the thought of that.

I realized it would be wise to leave immediately, before he tried to humiliate and confuse me further.

One thing Shan was wise enough to be aware of was that he had limited experience, simply because he was young.

Magic takes the path of least resistance.

Humanity is our sustenance! Without them, we have no immortality. Without them, we all die. Humanity and elohim need each other.

You were a lonely child," Tiy pronounced, "and you are a lonely woman.

Perhaps there was some truth in the implication Taropat had made. Merlan had taken Khaster's place in Tayven's mind. He was the weak and vulnerable one now, and Tayven felt he must help him as he couldn't have helped before.

I think the strangenesses are things we should face together, Taps and tubes alike. I supposed you felt the same.

His own madness was the last thing he feared.

He had seen many flames in his life, passed through them unscathed. Closed gateways, every one.

Sing a lust song," Bayard said. "Sing it for me.

Babylon might act as a narcotic upon the senses, lulling Melandra into a dreamy state of unreality, but bitterness still burned within her.

The clouds trembled about the sky, already muttering with thunder.