Zothique Quotes

“Sarcand has procured the chart of Omvor and has gone forth alone to the wharves. No doubt he means to embark in quest of the temple-treasure. We must follow quickly”
― Clark Ashton Smith, Zothique: The Final Cycle

“Sarcand, who had but lately come to the city of Mirouane, had already made himself the most formidable of all my master’s competitors.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, Zothique: The Final Cycle

“So I, Manthar the apprentice, composed myself to slumber, while Mior Lumivix steered”
― Clark Ashton Smith, Zothique: The Final Cycle

“To the boy from the parched hill-country, this cavern-portalled realm was an Eden of untasted delights, alluring him with the promise of its fruited boughs and verdurous ground.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, Zothique: The Final Cycle

“Now, night by night, the moon was sharpened above the craggy isle, and it became a heavy scythe and then a thin scimitar. And, after the interlunar dusk, it broadened from a frail saber to a sickle, and, digit by digit, swelled toward the gibbous orb and the plenilune.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, Zothique: The Final Cycle

“This is Iribos,” the Master told me.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, Zothique: The Final Cycle

“he was Xeethra, the humble and disregarded goatherd.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, Zothique: The Final Cycle

“the trees palpitated as if a sanguine ichor flowed within them in lieu of sap;”
― Clark Ashton Smith, Zothique: The Final Cycle

“the trees palpitated as if a sanguine ichor flowed within them”
― Clark Ashton Smith, Zothique: The Final Cycle