Scenting Hallowed Blood Quotes

“Your time will come again, dark queen, but come, let us embrace as sisters at last.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“Salamiel covered his head with his hands and the scent of hallowed blood rained down upon him.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“You took me from the crystal, the first gate to the source, and dragged me to into the abyss. You sought to eclipse all knowledge of light from my soul, so that I would become your dark god. But Sofia…” and here he paused with a smile. “Don’t you understand that by showing me the dark of the Tree, you made me into the perfect avatar of the Shamir? The true king must have knowledge of both light and dark. You gave me this.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“Her power had fed the prince of light, and she had taught him her darkest secrets.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“The destiny of the land was sealed, but as yet there was no way of knowing what direction that would take.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“It had happened all wrong.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“The voice was spined with sarcasm, but there was a fearless confidence about it that filled Shemyaza with angry terror. He felt helpless, hanging there within the crystal, enveloping the lightless chill of the nameless presence.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“Ainzu, my spirit is not beautiful. Lions devour the sweetest of lambs, for that is their nature.”

“Indeed, you are the beast,” Ainzu said. “And is not the beast of the earth? And is the earth not beautiful?”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“My beautiful one,” he said. “Daniel. My eyes, my ears, my tongue, my heart.”

“Indeed, he is beautiful,” Ainzu agreed. “Look well, for you look upon your own spirit. That is what Daniel represents. Is he not a lamb to your lion? Have you not lain down together?”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“A perfect image of Daniel filled the entire of the crystal, his face composed and tranquil, his delicate lips drawn in a wise smile. The image was so lovely it punched shards of pain through Shemyaza’s heart. He wanted to look away, but could not. How could he have forgotten this?”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“If you love him,” Ainzu said, “then you can free him, as he prays to free you. But the time for that has yet to come.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“Oh, come to me, my pretty one! Come sit upon my lap and I will you to the secret places beneath the earth. Don’t you understand your purpose? You are here because we hunt the Prince of Truth. Your husband, your lover, your despoiler.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“I make no distinctions concerning gender, at least not when desire is invoked.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“A man who turned away from women could not, in Meggie’s eyes, have magical power, yet Daniel clearly did.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“Sofia visualised shining strings emanating from each of her fingers and connected with the souls of her puppets. All she had to do to get them to perform was to lift a finger and tweak a string.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“She was with them now, enfolded by their magic.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“She felt as if she’d finally come home, to people that had always been her people. Women working magic together, a tradition as old as the earth Herself.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“Emma realised how beautiful Daniel had become. In Little Moor, she’d seen him as a gawky boy, but now his svelte body was that of a very attractive young man.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“The Pelleth were too eager to have Daniel in their ranks, and although Meggie and Betsy cleverly disguised their fervour, Emma could sense it behind their words, boiling away like a kettle on the old black range.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“He is virgin. He must remain so. Until the night before his death.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“We should be partners, not master and servant.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“No woman had aroused him as much since Ishtahar. Perhaps she was really telling the truth about herself.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“He had a strong urge to wipe his hands after touching the boy. This was no Daniel.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“Delmar was almost fishlike in his dank lack of passion, and his ocean eyes were empty of expression. He came alive only in his element, or in the throes of a trance.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“No one knows this land as well as I. Its secrets are my secrets. I can bend its elements to my will. You don’t have to go to the serpent alone.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“I can’t fulfill this destiny you all want for me so badly! I’m sick of hearing about it!”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“Everyone who knows about us wants to keep us apart from you. Your own people work against you! They want to contain you and control you.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“Her gaze travelled down his chest to the dark coins of his nipples, which seemed to call for a halo of lips to encircle them, for eager teeth to bite them.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“This hour belonged to Tamara alone.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood

“It was hard to believe this creature, this perfect being, lay submissive before her.”
― Storm Constantine, Scenting Hallowed Blood