661 Quotes by Storm Constantine

This man was hers. She could have him whenever she wanted to.

Pharinet, despite what I know of Val and whatever I might of you, I will always love you both. You are strange creatures, and always have been. That is no doubt part of the attraction.

I had always believed marriage to be as my parents portrayed it, something safe and staid. With you, that will not be so.

Merlac’s arresting mélange of sweet and bitter flavors was still a novelty to Valraven.

Will we ever get a taste for that? It is like sugar and spice mixed with bile.

Magrast was like someone’s version of hell; there was opulance and luxury, but a dark, rotten heart to it. So far, Khaster had only glimpsed the other Magrast, but he sensed it was there. The eyes of the whores, both male and female, who haunted the mazelike streets, oozed a knowledge that was not just sexual. Khaster perceived a veiled invitation: I can show things beyond your dreams or nightmares. Come to me, succumb. Learn. Then pay.

Bayard and his brothers were demon princes, and the emperor was the arch demon, an incarnation of depravity: gilded and beautiful and terrible.

I lay down among the the rocks, and they were gold and crimson like a royal tomb. I saw wonderous shapes rise from the fumes, twisting and curling like cats about me. They breathed upon me and filled me with fire. I saw myself leading armies. I saw myself killing men, and in my heart I felt a fierce glee. I saw myself ridding the world of all that was worthless.

Everything that he saw and heard about the city filled him with distaste, yet Valraven seemed to embrace it.