Storm Constantine > Quotes

“We dwell in forever.”
― Storm Constantine

“I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531)”
― Storm Constantine

“Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.”
― Storm Constantine, Thin Air

“If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand—always.”
― Storm Constantine, The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire

“Are you saying that he deserves to die?' I asked, chilled.
'We all deserve to die,' he answered.”
― storm constantine, The Bewitchments of Love and Hate

“There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.”
― Storm Constantine, The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit

“He had the compassion of a vivisectionist.”
― Storm Constantine, The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit

“I found it hateful, yet I wanted to be part of it.”
― Storm Constantine, The Bewitchments of Love and Hate

“...love's shadow is jealousy.”
― Storm Constantine, The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit

“We had given it a name, a substance, and somehow, in doing that, we had condemned ourselves.”
― Storm Constantine

“I felt as if something hung there in the back of my mind, waiting to tarnish whatever happiness I might find. Is it safer to be unhappy? Nothing ever wants to take that away.”
― Storm Constantine, The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit

“The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine.”
― Storm Constantine, The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire

“Lift your head to me...’
His is the kiss of a timorous lover. Feel his inhuman lips on the throat, the heat of it. The bite, when it comes, is cold. Begin to sink as the blood flows into his mouth; it is almost soothing. No pain. No pain at all. His teeth grind into the muscles; ecstasy and torment. Life, the very being, is flowing out. Unholy nourishment. Holy nourishment. Drained slowly.
The trauma of it feels like being torn, but it is no more than suddenly having the ability to experience reality in a different way. Waiting for the end... for what? Cannot foretell. No longer flesh, no longer blood. Soul. Free.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.”
― Storm Constantine

“I was hamming it up so much you could virtually taste the salad too.”
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“Listen, then, for I am a soulscapter and have the gift of the story tongue.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“How many personalities resided in a single body? Was it possible all aspects of a person could be real?”
― Storm Constantine, Sea Dragon Heir

“Undertaking magical work should not a hasty decision. It is vital that people appreciate what it entails and have a basic understanding of magical principals before they are thrown in at the deep end.”
― Storm Constantine, Bast and Sekhmet: Eyes of Ra

“Girls sprawled on the floor and across the couches. A sickly scent of plundered fruit flesh filled the humid air. Wine had been drink and spilled; goblets stood upon the table and lay upon the floor. Young faces were flushed with pleasure and a vicarious excitement. Gowns were rumpled and stained, slippers cast off. The fire burned loudly and fiercely. Wood cracked in the flames. There was little other light, for the candles had burned nearly all away.”
― Storm Constantine, Sea Dragon Heir

“The greatest virtue in Man is his undying sense of hope.”
― Storm Constantine, The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit

“Fey little maid. So lonely, and yet not.”
― Storm Constantine, Sea Dragon Heir

“Tomorrow would dawn fragrant with the smells of yesterday, until tomorrow becomes yesterday and so on. Nothing changes in Forever, nothing.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“Wraeththu have been with me for the greater part of my life. My first rather ham-fisted (and half-finished) stories about them began in my mid-teens. It wasn't until I was twenty-six that I began work properly on the full-length novel that became The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, first volume of the Wraeththu trilogy, which was published in 1987. This was followed by The Bewitchments of Love and Hate and the Fulfilments of Fate and Desire.”
― Storm Constantine, Para Imminence: Stories of the Future of Wraeththu

“Don’t think me a mouse, she thought, or even a little wren. I will discover for myself what kind of animal I am.”
― Storm Constantine, Sea Dragon Heir

“Any man worth my love lives only in storybooks.”
― Storm Constantine, Sea Dragon Heir

“In his heart, he was aware of just how vulnerable he was, and that Othman knew that. He had dared to believe he was different, that a new, stronger self had awakened within him, but it was newborn and fragile. This man, this creature was more than a match for him.”
― Storm Constantine, Stalking Tender Prey

“It was hard to believe that we were not the same age, harder still to believe he was my hostling.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“The Tartauchi and Beth…Gimel, they were beginning to conjoin. Such is the way monsters were conceived, at one time.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“I'm inspired by dreams and shadows, obsession and desire. By nature, I'm a dream collector and never stop working. I question people about their weirdest dreams and the strangest, most inexplicable experiences they've had. All this information whirls around in my mind, and new dreams emerge that form the seeds of stories and novels.”
― Storm Constantine

“...she noticed that the moon, so clear in the sky, had lost her first slice; the dark was on its way.”
― Storm Constantine, Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane