Burying the Shadow Quotes

“Lift your head to me...’
His is the kiss of a timorous lover. Feel his inhuman lips on the throat, the heat of it. The bite, when it comes, is cold. Begin to sink as the blood flows into his mouth; it is almost soothing. No pain. No pain at all. His teeth grind into the muscles; ecstasy and torment. Life, the very being, is flowing out. Unholy nourishment. Holy nourishment. Drained slowly.
The trauma of it feels like being torn, but it is no more than suddenly having the ability to experience reality in a different way. Waiting for the end... for what? Cannot foretell. No longer flesh, no longer blood. Soul. Free.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Listen, then, for I am a soulscapter and have the gift of the story tongue.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“The Tartauchi and Beth…Gimel, they were beginning to conjoin. Such is the way monsters were conceived, at one time.”
― 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

“All that compels me now is a mindless quest to see the face of the one I have pursued.”
― 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

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

“I realise, as I stand swaying on the splintered slabs, that I have lost the thread of real life. It is stretching to an infinite thinness. And I am losing the equally fragile thread of sanity; it will not be long.”
― 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

“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

“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

“My lady was just a vague shadow further up the road, tireless. I was afraid of losing her, believing that if I paused to rest, she would simply vanish forever.”
― 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

“Once you have been touched by them, it becomes an addiction.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

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

“The artisans are creatures of artifice; very shallow individuals.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“She is very attached to you, even though I think she only realised while I was with her that you were a real person, and not a phantom of her mind.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“He had always been a difficult creature to fathom.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“I had a choice now. I could view him as an adversary or as a potential partner; it was entirely my decision. Avizah’e would accept either role without overt complaint. But whatever I decided, Beth would still be his”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“This was what he enjoyed most; a game of words.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“My interest in her had always been out of the ordinary; something which transcended desire and gratification; a feeling I hoped was reciprocated.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“You are very fond of this Rayojini creature. Therefore, she must be an extremely intriguing individual.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“I remembered how she had fought against my presence in the past, and how, in secret moments she had opened her heart to me, telling me she knew I wasn’t real, but that in many ways, I was more real to her than anything. How I had longed to reveal myself to her at those times. Perhaps I should have.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“Life without Gimel, especially, was unthinkable to me now.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“I love telling stories, so I was hopelessly seduced.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“I had an inkling there was a razor-sharp intellect, a shrewd individual within the fluff of Livvy’s persona. There was another side to Sacramante, something which I’d caught an echo of as a girl, something that intrigued and seduced the unwary. Liviana was an intiate of its mysteries, but I knew I’d never learn its secrets from her.”
― Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

“We giggled again, like girls. We were so different, yet the interval of years was meaningless. It was as if we’d seen each other every day since then. Very few friendships have this magic.”
― 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 stopped walking and looked hard at this grand woman who had once been a girlhood friend. We had not known each other very long, but our friendship had been intense and intimate for all its brevity.”
― 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