Quotes from Storm Constantine

Sometimes he felt priveleged being part of Maycarpe's magical machine, but at other times, he felt like a fly caught in the grease of the cogs, who would presently be ground up by the inexorable, slowly turning metal.

You lost your god here in the flower of Babylon.

In moments of reverie; he sometimes wondered whether he himself was but the subject of a lonely pIerson's writing, as Ays and Finnigin were his.

He was an observer of what was happening rather than a participant. There could be neither enjoyment or disgust, only awareness.

If Caradore was like a prancing horse, frozen on the cliffs, the flags of its mane still fluttering, Norgance was like a lazy grey lizard lying close to the land, its limbs, relaxed and sprawling.

He is a very special man, Ninka. People can't help but love him. That is part of his power that cannot be taken away or limited.

There are landscapes there, but they are like nothing seen on Earth; gone are the restrictions of natural order; these are the kingdoms of imagination, where nothing is impossible or too bizarre.

There are too many souls in the world for any one of us to have the luxury of being unique.

If you love him," Ainzu said, "then you can free him, as he prays to free you. But the time for that has yet to come.

Nimnezzar knew Tiy was waiting for him to say something; the words that would act as a key to the lock upon her tongue. He had played this game in the past.

If Leonid the emperor was a lion, his sons were wolves, and now their eyes shone in the dark, brilliant with hunger and ferocity. It couldn't go on like this. Something would happen. Everything would change, and when it did, Merlan very much wanted to be on the winning side.

It is obvious that the elohim have contracted a soulscape malady.

My dear and lovely boy, if we swim through the maelstorm that the court of Oubrahan has waiting for us, I will reward and regale you with tales. Until then, we must hope and pray for just treatment.

Were there any places in this shunned landscape that bloomed with colour and life?

Of all her sons, only Bayard and Leo had remained intimate with her. They were her golden boys.

Sometimes the muse sits on my shoulder, but most often not I have a devil of a job tempting her back!

He had looked as beautiful as she remembered him, yet he had all but forgotten her.

Fending him off became more of a ritual courtship than a defence, until the performance just had to reach its logical conclusion: a night under the stars communing with the Goddess. Cabochan had half hoped his and Jordan's physical union would be a failure. Fate had decreed otherwise.

A perfect image of Daniel filled the entire of the crystal, his face composed and tranquil, his delicate lips drawn in a wise smile. The image was so lovely it punched shards of pain through Shemyaza's heart. He wanted to look away, but could not. How could he have forgotten this?

There was no easy path to what was right, what was truth.

Seduction takes many forms and not all of them involve the body.

I do not feel quite real today. How quickly things can change.

Lily could almost feel Barbara's itching desire to take her in hand, dress her up, give her a purpose in life.

Verity found, much to her own annoyance, that she was looking forward to the dinner party.