Wraeththu Quotes

“It’s those enormous eyes. You always look so defensive, or defenseless; I’m not sure which.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“It was hard to believe that we were not the same age, harder still to believe he was my hostling.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“Tomorrow would dawn fragrant with the smells of yesterday, until tomorrow becomes yesterday and so on. Nothing changes in Forever, nothing.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“I want to stay here, live the life I’ve chosen, but I know I can’t. That’s the worst of it. You’re right, Flick. Thiede has seen us all. And we’re just puppets to him.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“You and Orien invited something into Saltrock and you can’t undo it.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“If Pell had learned to be hard, I at least had learned to be somewhat more understanding.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“Oh, Cal, you disappoint me! Pell always admired your clever sarcasm. Don’t feel sorry for Caeru, just let your talents rip!”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“I was finding it quite difficult equating the Pell who could treat someone so dismissively with the compassionate young creature I had known in Megalithica.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“I had come to see quite quickly in my beloved, a certain deviousness that I’m sure hadn’t been there before.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“He was new to me, yet familiar. Like a shining phantom of the Pell I’d once known. A succubus/incubus waiting in the darkness. But this was daylight and he had a dripping sandwich of spiced ham and savage mustard in his hand, which he thoughtfully pushed into my mouth.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“He would meet many new people and inevitably forget the intensity of his feelings for me.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“The face of the creature was covered; I’d have to wait until it woke up to see whether it was a face I liked.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“You have become something of a folk hero to Wraeththu, Cal. You can thank Swift and Cobweb for that. They love you passionately. Swift has never given up trying to find out what Thiede did with you. He is a respected har; people listen to him. And because of that, many hara were considering the possibility that you might be a convenient tool to use against Thiede’s increasing autonomy with the Hegemony.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

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

“Thiede’s proficient at keeping people in limbo.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“We are all traveling and must offer help to those we meet upon the Path who may need it.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

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

“I wanted to fight for you, fight the Gelaming, the Tigron, whoever was there in the shadows. But it’s all too…big. I have no chance. I cannot lose you, because I never had you. You’ve given me so much, but if I want to share it, it must be with someone else. That’s hard. It’s cruel. Why must we suffer? If there’s a great power behind all this, why did it let me love you?”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“Bad enough to be considered a gold-digging trouble-maker without having twinges of pity for the owner of these opinions.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“Look at me, trying to carve my name upon the stone of Wraeththu history, whilst yours is there already it seems. Burned upon it indelibly, and without you even trying!”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“The truth was, I’d always wanted to go to Immanion, even in Thiede’s tower, even on my darkest days in Thaine, but it had to be on my terms. Pride wouldn’t let me settle for anything less. I couldn’t be the Tigron’s lapdog because I knew I was worthy of equality.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“Pell, I want you. I have always wanted you.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“I’d poured out my heart to him and he treated it as a self-indulgent joke.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“Oh, come on, don’t think you ever fooled me with that superficial, devil-may-care, live for today kick!”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“I thought I was fighting a battle, but I wasn’t, was I. All along, I’ve been doing the right thing. I was trying so hard not to as well. How depressing.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“Reviled as vermin, revered as a god, full of hate and bitterness at his condition; it had flowered into an insatiable appetite for power. And he had succeeded. He had taken it, bleeding, with his bare hands from the under-nourished, pigeon-chest of mankind. Thiede. Yes, it made sense. By any god that still lived, the meglomaniac that styled himself our deity earned my respect in those moments. Whatever his faults, he had fought against incredible odds and won. Now, presumably, he was laughing. I don’t blame him. It’s a good joke.”
― 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

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

“Would we have smiled together, sharing our secret, savoring it?”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu

“Her walls are polished obsidian, soaring so high as to cast a perpetual shadow over the edge of the city within. Such protectiveness.”
― Storm Constantine, Wraeththu