Calanthe Quotes

“I have to take my gloves off to write and it is bitterly cold, but if I don’t get it down on paper soon, I will begin to forget and the narrative will lose its edge.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“Pictures kept surfacing in my mind like murder victims in a mud patch.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“I kept my bag of notes tucked under my arm. I had come to hate being parted from them.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“The world is vast and I wander in it like a gypsy, yet I’m a prisoner.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“When these thoughts come to me, I must write them down, because it is cleansing.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“If I concentrate hard enough, I can draw my scattered strength back into myself.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“If I was honest, did I really want them, those elusive, provocative, teasing answers? I’d chased them across a continent, and I wasn’t convinced I’d cornered them yet. Even if I had, it might be that I’d be happier not getting acquainted with them.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“In grand schemes small people are often expendable; especially after they’ve trotted off dutifully and completed their allotted quests.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“Visions, messages, proddings and pullings, signs and omens; a clever, intricate game, and here was I, a pawn, puffed up with his own importance, scurrying hither and thither, in the name of seeking answers.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“The light seemed barely light at all, just a slight, steady glow where figures moved as black shadows.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“If you knew the questions you would know the answers.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“Every moment is terrifying in its brevity, never to be realized again, for better or worse.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“I’d always relished challenges, the slow, sinuous winding toward seduction of the glacial, beautiful creatures who denied me.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“Darkness fell about me like a veil and the sounds of merriment seemed very far away.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“Panthera was far, far away from me and I climbed a finger of stone, distanced from all that I knew.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“Cal, known for his lies, could lie to himself.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“Chaos was a good word to describe me; there was very little else.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“Cal came very swiftly, the epitome of reserve and tranquility.”
― Storm Constantine, The Shades of Time and Memory