Mercurio Quotes

“The brighter the light, the deeper the shadow.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“The boy flushed. The voice had recently broken to a true silver tenor, cunning accessory to Mercurio’s darker range. He was, besides, in love with Mercurio. Half Verensa had been would be. Filled with terror and joy, the boy waited trembling.”
― Tanith Lee, Sung in Shadow

“He gave his habitual impression, that he was prepared to have everything, anyone, unless they hastened to keep up. That impression in Romulan’s case might be false.”
― Tanith Lee, Sung in Shadow

“His one weakness was that he was stimulated by his own fear, enjoyed, it, frequently sought it out.”
― Tanith Lee, Sung in Shadow

“Mercurio, arguing for the discussion’s sake, questioning nothing, believing very little, mesmerizing the guardsman as a matter of course, smiled gravely at him.”
― Tanith Lee, Sung in Shadow

“His voice cut through all like a gold wire, through time, place, dust, heat, and faith. A girl on a balcony averted her head from him superstitiously among the terra-cotta pots of flowers. Romulan blinked at him, entranced. None of them had heard a verse sung better, or a love song more like a knell.”
― Tanith Lee, Sung in Shadow

“The devilish qualities, not always limited to masks, were awake and stirring.”
― Tanith Lee, Sung in Shadow

“Mercurio bowed, a touch too courteously, an edge Chenti, so quick to speak of swords, quite missed.”
― Tanith Lee, Sung in Shadow

“Strings and blades are your domain, Mercurio. We’ll prevail on your for a song.”
― Tanith Lee, Sung in Shadow

“Damn this, damn that. So much profligate damning. Hell will be busy.”
― Tanith Lee, Sung in Shadow

“Mercurio was at times given to the darkest of dark reveries, cloaking them, masking them even from himself, with songs and tricks, or displays of mocking and mostly controlled lunacy.”
― Tanith Lee, Sung in Shadow

“On the grassy slope abot the inn, where the myrtles grew, Flavian Estemba sat like a piece of classic statuary, watching the last lights fade away from the apertures of the building below.”
― Tanith Lee, Sung in Shadow

“Mercurio’s profound graveness tottered on the brink of extreme uncontrolled hilarity.”
― Tanith Lee, Sung in Shadow

“Mercurio began to laugh. It was not the usual musical and dangerous laughter. He coughed and cawed and rolled on the ground, bent double as in pain-he might have been weeping. And somewhere in his soul, possibly he was.”
― Tanith Lee, Sung in Shadow

“Save your carving for the joint, dear Chesarius, I’ll not be dissected.”
― Tanith Lee, Sung in Shadow

“I do not sing songs. I sing dreams, and they are nothing. And since you’ll have me sing nothing, I need not sing at all.”
― Tanith Lee, Sung in Shadow