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Storm Constantine is a British author born in 1956. Known for her works in fantasy and horror, her writing has captivated readers with its supernatural elements and profound philosophical themes. Constantine's style is unique, blending literary quality with imagination, providing readers with a rich reading experience.

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“What an unfortunate time for the wanderlust to strike!”

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“Only the promise of greater comforts kept me travelling.”

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“Even in my most secluded moments, I was never truly alone.”

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“As a child, I had thought the guardian-pursuers to be very real, but as I grew older, I concluded they were simply products of our own imaginations, shaped into being by the trauma of the scrying rite we all undergo at eight years of age. It’s not impossible that the scryers conjure them forth from the murk of the soulscape itself anchoring the vigilant images to our conscious minds by an insidiously instilled sense of guilt.”

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“No matter how often I had tried to change the image in my head, whenever I thought of my guardian pursuers, I masked them with the faces of the Metatronims I had seen in Sacramante.”

Beth Rayo And Gimel

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Source: Burying the Shadow

“In my heart, I’d worried that the presence of the Metatronim would follow me back to Taparak and haunt my dreams forever. It did not happen that way, exactly.”

Rayo And Beth Gimel

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“I had discovered that the concentration required for crossing new territory seemed to quell the phantoms, dim their shapes, and silence their whispers, which was probably the real reason why I had not headed back to Taparak when the weather turned.”

Beth Rayo And Gimel

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“With relief, I’d waved goodbye to my guardian-pursuers on the coast of Lansaal and headed north, visualising them as diminishing specks on the shore, impotently ranting at my defection. See, it is a joke. I am not afraid of them.”

Rayo Gimel And Beth

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“I was hired to tell stories of my experiences more of than for my soulscaping skills, because Atruscans love stories of any kind, and pester all travellers to tell a few.”

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“The Atruscans are as hospitable as they are hale; it is a shame we soulscapers so rarely have an excuse to tread their hands.”

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“It was neither welcoming nor antagonistic, just a question. I wondered if it would be easier to lie.”

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“My hostess had an extensive family of brats, sticky-mouthed and staring, who were huddled around a delightfully huge fire.”

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“I thanked all the spirits such creatures as Annec existed, whose opponent sole function was the nurturing of others, and that is gave them such pleasure. All you had to do was be weakly grateful for their ministrations, and they puffed up with maternal urges like a sail full of wind.”

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“I smiled, feeling my face fold into a now perfect copy of my late mother’s wry expression.”

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“The majority of people were possessive of their theologies, and strongly resented disbelief and criticism from others.”

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“The man was canny, but then he had not lost a son.”

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“Not only did failure oppress me, but I could no longer deny the pattern revealing itself before me.”

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“There was a message to be translated, symbolism to be aligned and understood.”

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“Information nagged in the air around me, incomprehensible for now, but existent all the same. If only I could pluck it forth, give it form.”

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“Seeing Q’orveh had somehow choked the urge for intimacy, with anyone, from my body.”

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“They giggled at my inquiries, shaking their heads, grabbing hold of my hands and whirling me ‘round in their midst. My voice simply blew away from me.”

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“For a while, I slept, my dreams coloured by the hectic voices beyond the garden; the crazy songs of the gift of the vine.”

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“Dressed in black, he reclined in the shell like a huge cat; his burnished hair a pale glory in the lady-light of the moon. The man was, or at least strongly resembled, my dream phantom, Beth Metatronim. He was holding Keea in his arms.”

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“Perhaps, by seeing them in the flesh, I would exorcise the ghosts their images had conjured in my mind.”

Rayo And Beth Gimel

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“It is astounding how, when in the womblike embrace of warm water, we can fool ourselves that we can still be children.”

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“An insane idea begged to recognition in my head, one that I hardly dared to consider.”

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“I love telling stories, so I was hopelessly seduced.”

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“Life without Gimel, especially, was unthinkable to me now.”

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“I realise, as I stand swaying on the splintered slabs, that I have lost the thread of real life. It is stretching to an infinite thinness. And I am losing the equally fragile thread of sanity; it will not be long.”

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“I had never seen such magnificent people, and their magnificence came from inside them, I could tell, an innate beauty that eclipsed the self-conscious loveliness of Kalkydra and his kind.”

Rayo And Beth Gimel

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“My mood of detatched aloofness faded, and I was drawn into the atmosphere of it, although her heart was curled around the delicious memory of seeing the Metatronims.”

Rayo And Beth Gimel

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“From the moment I saw them, I’d felt a deep sense of recognition, some tugging within me as if I’d met them before yet forgotten when and how. I was filled with an excitement that eclipsed even the feelings I’d had after meeting Hadith Sarim.”

Rayo And Beth Gimel

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“Let her be. We must wait for the time when she’s mature enough to take on the role we have created for her. If we intervene before that time, we could ruin everything.”

Beth Rayo And Gimel

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About the Author

Born: 1956
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Quotes: 99

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