Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy, #2)

by Deborah Harkness

As a historian I studied the past. Because I was a witch, I could actually visit it.

lucky bitch

“You will not be alone either, Philippe de Clermont,” I whispered fiercely. “I’ll find a way to be with you in the darkness, I promise. And when you think the whole world has abandoned you, I’ll be there, holding your hand.”

“Help! I think my husband is a vampire!” I laughed and pounded on the backs of his thighs.

i love this entire interaction

And so I discovered that the practice of magic was not unlike the practice of history. The trick to both wasn’t finding the correct answers but formulating better questions.

“One should find wholeness in marriage, Gabriel, but it should not be a prison for either party,”

Sort yourselves out or I’ll take them back to London and leave the two of you here to shift for yourselves.” Gallowglass’s blue eyes were fierce.

ate

Diana: You are everything we dreamed you would one day become. Life is the strong warp of time. Death is only the weft. It will be because of your children, and your children’s children, that I will live forever. Dad

fuck him for that fr

“‘In every ending there is a new beginning.’”