661 Quotes by Storm Constantine

I shall never forget how he paused and turned, looked back over his shoulder at me. His eyes, his face were full of secrets and humor. I felt as if the arrow of the sun had pierced my heart. His beauty seemed doomed, somehow.

The women of Caradore had secrets and she was flitting around the hidden flame of it, curious and in danger of being scorched. The land pulsed with mysteries she wanted to penetrate.

The sacrifice of men guarantees we women still have these splendid domains to wander around, but we wander around them alone.

I think the dragons, and other elemental beasts like them, are symbols for the life of the world. I think humans have become estranged from the power, to their detriment.

Words spun patterns in Varencienne’s mind, but she knew she had to be careful.

I used to have terrible nightmares about Ellony. She would come to my window and slide through the glass like a mist. She came to steal my breath, an ugly, monstrous sea woman. Her skin was greeny-white and she had a mouth full of hooked fangs like a predator fish.

I loved her so much, she was so beautiful in life, it seemed unbelievably cruel that I had to become afraid of her. I would wake screaming just as Ellony stooped over me in bed. She had cold saliva that smelled of fish. It fell onto my face.

He’s beautiful,” she said, an inadequate response in comparison to the strange lurch she felt in her belly. The eyes of the portrait seemed to stare right into her: “He looks sad.”“That was painted just before he went to Magrast for the first time. He wasn’t happy about leaving home.

The affair did not last, and what you have heard is no doubt the poison that lingers in a broken heart.