Rayojini Quotes

“It is possible to create physical matter, or at least a convincing illusion of such, by the power of thought alone.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“At that moment, I was glad to have fellow rational beings with me, whatever their age and experience.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Nobody seemed to want to venture out into the naked aura beyond the trees where the grass had been bleached to bone whiteness beneath the moon’s colourless radiance.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“In the world of the night, all is black and white, and we were there to celebrate its colours.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Perhaps my own soulscape was trying to give me a message, but the illusion made me uncomfortable, and I closed my eyes to banish it.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Shadows pulsed on the edge of my vision; I experienced a great feeling of imminence. It was like wings over my head; wings I knew too well.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Sexual partners who dropped you without a word caused the most horrible of self-doubts.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Their lilting laughter sounded like crazy birds and rippling water; rising and falling. My hand had begun to throb with a dull pain, and my vision seemed somehow faded. Colours blended like wet paint before my eyes. I was dizzy, thrown from person to person in the crowd; hands caught me and pushed me away. I struggled to pass through them.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“After what seemed an hour of disorienting scrabbling, I managed to claw my way through the leaping bodies and stumbled into the city beyond them.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“This was the true madness of the Strangeling. I realised there was no risk of attack, none at all. Danger here was a radically different concept to any that I was familiar with. It would be very easy to give oneself to the unreality of this place.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“The Sink looked utterly enchanted, as if everyone was under the spell of a magical sleep.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Things that I cannot see, that are not human, I deal with in the way I deal with anything in the soulscape; with my will.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Behind my closed eyelids, the world was red and black, shot with flames and blood.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“For a moment or two I was afraid that some invisible net was closing in, tightening around me, and yet, on another level, I was relieved not to be alone.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Eloim are invisible in the human soulscape. She might be able to manipulate the soulscape, much as you have manipulated humans in Sacramante, but in this case to forge a positive image of eloim, not an invisible one!”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Something dark had hooked itself into my heart.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Had I merely dreamed up an improbably solution to the puzzle, which was only the product of a lively imagination? I felt Keea wanted to me to think that. Still there was no point in rushing to conclusions; I must wait and observe.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“I noticed a still face in the maelstorm of activity; a white-skinned face, that did not smile. Shadow eyes. A veil about the head. I felt suddenly cold. The whirling corynantic dancers became mere phantoms in the aura of this motionless figure, this other woman. Her body was wrapped in a thick, dark cloak; only her face was visible. As if she’d been waiting for me to notice her, she came towards me, this true harpy-woman; her white face expressionless.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“There was only one thing to do; enter the spirit of the place.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Perhaps the conspiracy existed only because I had invented it. Perhaps I should forget about it now.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“My easy conviction that everything that had happened had only been the product of my imagination was shattered now.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Sitting there, with a tiny glass of cordial clutched in a hand more used to earthenware jugs of murky beer, I was thinking about how alien a concept the family-as it was presented here-to me. I found it oppressive and clammy, nothing more than a breeding ground for spite and intrigue.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“I was still chasing shadows, but I thought I understood what cast them.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“All that existed was the direction I travelled; an invisible path in the mettle of manifestation. I was the spirit of all soulscapers, past and present.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“I should have stayed in my nest, which was, of course, my ignorance. Now I was out among the giants, and I would have to be more vigilant.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“As my journey progressed, all shreds of clarity left my mind, and it seemed a dark tunnel formed around me, with my unknown destination as a vague smoky light ahead.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“New significance had come to the tumbled ruins; I walked a landscape of the past, along an avenue of spiritual fires.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Here, among the broken stones, I am sure the climax of my life is about to unfold.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“The events of the last few months have broken down into essential components in my mind: archetype, symbol, myth. I feel that everything is softly falling into focus: soon my eyes will be clear, I shall see the whole picture. Such a pity that, now, it is irrelevent to me.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Now, I must have truly entered the soulscape, in body and mind, the place where all dreams, nightmares and desires live out their shadow life.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow