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The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2) QUOTES

The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2) QUOTES

1 " He was luminous with a strange indigo light. He was inhuman, like a demon. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

2 " Dressed as man, and with all the poise of someone at least six years older, he had learned quickly from his Magravandian classmates. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

3 " He was like a spirit cut free from reality. He was adrift, helpless, insubstantial. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

4 " We were conquerors once.”

Shan looked up at him. “But…”

“The empire of Mewt was larger than the Magravandians. We were the kings of the world.”

“Then how can you accept these people here? How can you eat with them, talk with them?”

“It is their turn,” Tuya said, “and not all Magravandians are slaughterers.”

“I cannot accept what they’ve done.”

“You must. It is part of what I’m trying to teach you.”

“You’re teaching me to fight.”

“A fighter who cannot think and reason, a fighter who cannot have compassion is weak,” Tuya said.

“Must I love my enemies as I cut them down?”

“It helps,” Tuya said. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

5 " Now you have told me your story, I feel there’s a reason behind everything that’s happened to me. I don’t know if I can make a difference to anything, but if people don’t try, nothing will change. I’m eager to try. I want knowledge and strength. I want to go on from here one day and find the dark heart of Magravandias. I want to crush it.”

Taropat smiled. “I’m glad you’re enjoying yourself. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

6 " We rarely have guests, so when we do, we tend to smother them. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

7 " Leonid is a golden king who has brought a certain amount of unity to the world. His Dragon Lord has humbled Cos, which is no mean feat. Before Magravandias, Cos was the leader of the world, just as righteous and autocratic as Magravandias is now. Ask the Mewts. They’ll tell you, for they forget nothing. Cos had had its day, even though its rebels believe otherwise. Before Cos, it was Mewt, and the sun king Harakhte butchered his way to power in the name of light. Does this surprise you? Did you not think that a Mewtish empire would surely have made the world a spiritual haven, its people enlightened? Think again. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

8 " Bayard was a blade of radiant light, the power of the sun. Yet he was serene, controlled. He listened to Khaster’s outpourings in the stillness, perhaps fascinated. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

9 " The teas consisted of an array of fiery foreign dishes, accompanied by an unidentifiable hot beverage that tasted of stale smoke. Shan could barely eat. The spices burned his mouth, the drink made him nauseous. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

10 " I have never seen anything like this,” Bayard said. “It is…strange. I almost do not want this power-to make a man an animal. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

11 " Without wisdom, without awareness, without mercy, without will, the king does not exist. All these qualities are within the Crown. They are the vital elements of kingship, and when they come together in the flesh of the true king, silence covers the sky, the waters, and the earth. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

12 " Smite me now. I am not worthy of this company.”

“Ah, pride,” said the angel. “You must learn to temper its excesses. I’ll not smite you. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

13 " What he was hearing was truth, a truth he’d always known in his heart. The experience was almost religious. The condemnation, wrenched from a scapegoat, was a divine judgment. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

14 " I envy the fact that soon you will have your first sight of Mewt, of Jessapur and other countries. That first experience cannot be repeated-the foreign scent of a place, the newness of its sunsets, dawns, and twilights, the ambience of its nights, the perfume of its days, the secret knowledge that hangs in the very air waiting to be discovered or reveal itself. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

15 " You must learn and remember that where your intention goes, so energy flows. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

16 " His life was nothing. He was nothing. For a few scant moments, this revelation was spiritual in its purity and simplicity. He felt release. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

17 " He could see the great cloud of fear, shot with red and black, that was the god-form of Madragore, created by men, sustained by men. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

18 " All he could see was a dark king enthroned, surrounded by a lurid indigo light that hurt the eyes. The king held a sword in his hand. Suspended above his head, rather than resting upon it, was a tall crown that entitled a strong golden radiance. There was power in this man, but he seemed evil. Shan thought his face looked as if it was made of frozen lightning.

Is this a true king? Shan thought. Am I to conquer him? Or is it my king? Is he part of myself? "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

19 " Sometimes he felt priveleged being part of Maycarpe’s magical machine, but at other times, he felt like a fly caught in the grease of the cogs, who would presently be ground up by the inexorable, slowly turning metal. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)

20 " If Leonid the emperor was a lion, his sons were wolves, and now their eyes shone in the dark, brilliant with hunger and ferocity. It couldn’t go on like this. Something would happen. Everything would change, and when it did, Merlan very much wanted to be on the winning side. "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)