Gimel Quotes

“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.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“I had never seen such magnificent people, and their magnificence came from inside them, I could tell, an innate beauty that eclipsed the self-conscious loveliness of Kalkydra and his kind.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“My mood of detatched aloofness faded, and I was drawn into the atmosphere of it, although her heart was curled around the delicious memory of seeing the Metatronims.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“From the moment I saw them, I’d felt a deep sense of recognition, some tugging within me as if I’d met them before yet forgotten when and how. I was filled with an excitement that eclipsed even the feelings I’d had after meeting Hadith Sarim.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“I shook my head to regain my composure and addressed all the averted heads.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“I fed upon the concentrated attention of my audience, drawing out strands of sustenance like a web.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Morning brought fury to my door in several forms.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“In my heart, I’d worried that the presence of the Metatronim would follow me back to Taparak and haunt my dreams forever. It did not happen that way, exactly.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Poor Beth, it must have felt like slow and agonising death, keeping his distance from Tartaruchi; this work of art was but a poor substitute.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“An unwritten law forbids us to speak of it, and even the thought conjures dark names, dark times.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“My heart was fluttering madly as if I was in the presence of a new lover, of whom I was uncertain.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Avirzah’e’s enthusiasms do tend to run away with him in their jaws, you must admit!”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Only hours before, I had been poignantly balancing on the rim of a terrible abyss, my heart and head full of profundity; now I was living in a nightmare of farce.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“I should have been with them, yes, part of them. I was meant to be part of them, but now I was there in my salon with the Lord of Light.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“My mood swayed between a desire to weep and a cool, steely anger.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“I questioned the wisdom of Sammael travelling abroad so soon after his emergence from the tower. He trembled in the open air, something he sought to conceal.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“As for myself, I had no desire whatsoever to visit the ruin in the Strangeling, but as I was so inextricably entwined in this convoluted web of dilemmas, I could only abandon any resistance; struggling would merely bind me more tightly within the sticky threads.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Little time, little time, little time, sang the rhythm of the pounding hooves.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“I listened to them being bravely humorous, overtaken by a sense of distance from them, sheer unreality.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Just for a moment, I longed to succumb to the hysteria within me that was demanding admission.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“The darkness was full of dancing specks of light, which I could see even when I closed my eyes.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Perhaps, by seeing them in the flesh, I would exorcise the ghosts their images had conjured in my mind.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow