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I’d happened upon a few vampires, since I worked in a field that put me in touch with scientists, and there were vampires aplenty in laboratories around the world. Science rewards long study and patience. And thanks to their solitary work habits, scientists were unlikely to be recognized by anyone except their closest co-workers. It made a life that spanned centuries rather than decades much easier to negotiate.
Fucking incredible
If it went bang, involved blood, or promised to unlock the secrets of the universe, there was sure to be a vampire around.
a mark of physiological delicacy
détente.
A state of easing hostility
“Ages ago. Yesterday. What does it matter?” he asked with a vampire’s disregard for time.
Nothing in my culinary experience had taught me what to feed a vampire when he came for dinner.
The strongest distinguishing characteristic of humans is their power of denial.
He was not of an age, but for all time,’” I murmured. “‘With thee conversing I forget all time,’” he responded, traveling further into seventeenth-century literature and offering up a line from Milton.
“Magic is desire made real.
Violating Matthew’s privacy and engaging in ethically questionable behavior might be permissible, but I wasn’t going to deface an antique.
“You were strong enough to withstand the injury—you should have no problem with the cure.”
“I’m French, Sarah, not Italian. And I’m a vampire. I always have wine,”
“I’ve always thought yoga and magic had a lot in common.
‘a ma vie de coer entier,’” Matthew said, the tip of his index finger touching the gold surface. “It’s old French for ‘my whole heart for my whole life.’
In every moment, for the rest of my life, I will be choosing you—over
I had never turned away from the knowledge of what he’d done to survive as a vampire. I couldn’t turn away from the sins of the husband, the father, and the son either.
“The gods like to surprise us when we grow complacent. It’s their favorite form of entertainment.”
“Sometimes it seems like the world is full of invisible potential that is just beyond my grasp.
revenge is never an adequate remedy for loss.
“You are not just my heart but its beating.
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.
“Three grown men and a woman, and guess who gets stuck with the dragon?”
You’re as volatile as creation itself, Diana.
“You tell me that magic is just desire made real. Maybe spells are nothing more than words that you believe with all your heart,” Matthew said,
Omni fine initium novum,’”
“‘In every ending there is a new beginning.’”
Sol in Cancer The signe of the Crabbe pertains to houses, lands, treasures, and whatever is hidden. It is the fourth house of the Zodiak. It signifies death and the end of thinges. —Anonymous English Commonplace Book, c. 1590, Gonçalves MS 4890, f. 8r
Ghosts didn’t have much substance. All they were composed of was memories and heart.
the hard work of becoming.
we know from experience that the past is never more than a temporary reprieve.”
fait accompli.
“If you truly love someone, you will cherish what they despise most about themselves.”
“To every question I have ever had, or ever will have, you are the answer.”
Happy hunting in Venice, my dear,” Ysabeau said, patting me on the hand.
a willingness to change was the secret of survival.
