Stealing Sacred Fire Quotes

“I’m afraid we have mislaid our esteemed leader.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“We might have lived and died a thousand times, but what happened so long ago has never been resolved.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“Seduction takes many forms and not all of them involve the body.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“You lost your god here in the flower of Babylon.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“The ways of men have no power over us.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“You are a victim of your own mindless greed. This land will radiate glory, but you will never look upon it.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“Love seemed far from this place, but then, had he not predicted himself that love could be cruel and stronger than death?”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“Did no-one ever tell you not to trust a fallen angel?” Shemyaza said. “They tell lies.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“He felt different now, as if a new personality had come to inhabit his body.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“Whether she was mad or not, she had helped him in an hour of need.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“I cannot own the sky.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“The clouds trembled about the sky, already muttering with thunder.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“He has been away from the world for a long time, and a cage is no place to reacquaint yourself with reality.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“You are nearly a woman, and a wondrous woman at that!”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“Strange how people so seldom said what they felt.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“She found herself wondering what the world would have been like if Shemyaza and the others had never disobeyed the laws of Kharsag and taken human wives.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“He drifted into his memories then, and Sarpanita’s mind was filled with dusty images, like ancient paintings hung too long in the light. She fell into the dream of them, lived them; saw Shemyaza as a young man, heard his laughter. He was beautiful in the alien way of the Annage, with the incredible height and in his long, serpent face. She knew that Penemue had loved him as more than a brother. He showed her their love-making and she could witness it without shyness.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“Penemue’s emotions were an indigo red maelstorm in Sarpanita’s mind. She could barely think.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“What he saw in you made him afraid, for you were a dark mirror.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“Many dark rituals have been conducted to drive you along your path.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“She was annoyed that Amytis had become involved in the matter of Melandra, for Tiy had been carefully nurturing a relationship with the American. The reason Nimnezzar had yet to grant her an audience was because Tiy had advised him against it, and had assured him he could let her deal with Melandra’s interrogation. Nimnezzar was so obsessed by Shemyaza and Penemue, he saw Melandra as of minor importance. Tiy knew otherwise, but now, Amytis, with her brash, voluptuous presence, might spoil the delicate machinery of words and suggestions that she had constructed.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“You say you do not see a king in me, and you may be right, but all I see in you is a bullying child.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“This was a court of men; no women were present to witness the judgment of Shemyaza, seducer of all women.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“Melandra looked at the hand for a moment, then saw her own hand within it, enfolded in fingers. Somehow she had reached out and been taken.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“Babylon might act as a narcotic upon the senses, lulling Melandra into a dreamy state of unreality, but bitterness still burned within her.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“You were a lonely child,” Tiy pronounced, “and you are a lonely woman.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“The moment of his fall was for closer to the present moment than millenia before.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“He felt desire, but it wasn’t urgent, more a simple need for oneness with this new company.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“I don’t have a feeling of doom, just impendence.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire

“Their conversation was like a dance, full of wild tarantellas, when their most speculative ideas would burst forth, only to be followed by slow, stately steps, when they considered they were acting like children, making things up, stepping too far into the domain of fantasy.”
― Storm Constantine, Stealing Sacred Fire