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Burying the Shadow QUOTES

Burying the Shadow QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " Madness there, little other than I had expected, and grief and love, but mainly madness. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow

3 " It is obvious that the elohim have contracted a soulscape malady. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow

4 " I trust only myself-ourselves. We must travel and find ourselves a soulscaper, Gimel, a soulscaper suited to our needs. It has gone on too long, come too close. The sickness breathes upon our necks. I, for one, can wait no longer for others to act. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow

5 " Nothing could be more perfect than this moment, but all too soon it is gone, burning out among the stars. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow

6 " A renegade burned out among the stars last night. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow

7 " Miahel had been confined to atelier courts for over forty years; now he emerged, fresh as a dew-heavy bird, sleeky fed and quivering with unspent energy. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow

8 " The night was alive, as only a late summer night can be. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow

9 " For several minutes, I leaned upon the rail, gazing out across the city of Sacramente, breathing in its riot of scents; the hot flesh-smell beneath me, the flower haze above. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow

10 " At that moment, everything went utterly still, but for light shooting from jewelled throat to jewelled throat, from candelabra to chandelier. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow

11 " As one, the silent gathering slid out onto the balcony, human patrons in pursuit. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow

12 " The performance is the life of the city, our life, and beyond all considerations of personal life. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow

13 " I could tell that the lady’s pain was condensing hard within every eloim heart, as we smiled and nodded at our friends, talking in voices that barely shook, of the capricious bent of the artistic soul. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow

14 " Sometimes, it seemed almost as if this book wrote itself. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow

15 " The narrow streets and modest plazas were empty of life and slick with rain, while above them the soaring ateliers brooded, their dark windows as blank as weary eyes. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow

16 " Listen, then, for I am a soulscapter and have the gift of the story tongue. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow

17 " We touch, and the link is forged. Clawing the residue of Beth’s failing strength in my grasp, I align our souls with the child’s. I can even see her name, as if it marks every cell of her body. Rayojini. Rayo. Daughter. She had been waiting for us. She is the one, the only possible one. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow

18 " A great burden had been lifted from my soul. I had divested its weight onto the child Rayojini, and I knew she would not feel it there. It could not harm her. Not yet. Not for a long time. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow

19 " The child was my little seed. As had been promised in the ritual, I would haunt her to womanhood. I would nurture and strengthen her powers from afar. She would flourish within the caul of my benevolence. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow

20 " Poor Vicretia was pale as a forest flower, trembling uncontrallably. Yet even in her fear there was anticipation, excitement. "

― Storm Constantine , Burying the Shadow