"I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531)"
- Storm Constantine
"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..."
"I found it hateful, yet I wanted to be part of it."
"I felt as if something hung there in the back of my mind, waiting to tarnish whatever happiness I might find. Is it safer to be unhappy? Nothing ever wants to take that away."
"He had the compassion of a vivisectionist."
"The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression."
"There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality."
"Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away."
"...love's shadow is jealousy."
"The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine."