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“Luca da Peraga. Her wings. Her heart.”
― Fiona Paul, Starling

“It was perfectly horrible. But it was perfect.”
― Fiona Paul, Belladonna

“But reasons to live are different from reasons not to die.”
― Fiona Paul, Starling

“She couldn’t substitute Falco for Luca. She couldn’t substitute a series of reckless romantic moments for a life with someone honest and true.”
― Fiona Paul, Starling

“Luca doesn’t care what I think about science or religion or vampires. He accepts me as I am. With you, I always felt like you wanted to change me. We spoke so long ago of Michel de Montaigne, of how marriage was like a gilded cage. But Montaigne was wrong. Marriage can set you free of the cage if you find the right person.” She looked pleadingly at Falco, praying he would understand. “Luca da Peraga is the right man for me.”
― Fiona Paul, Starling

“Congratulations, starling. You were meant to fly.”
― Fiona Paul

“Luca was the same as she was, when it came to the things that mattered.”
― Fiona Paul

“Luca’s freedom was at the tips of her fingers.”
― Fiona Paul, Belladonna

“How terrible it must be to be a member of the noble class. So many rules. Such restraint. You must feel like a caged bird, battering its wings against the sides of its golden prison.”
― Fiona Paul, Venom

“The truth never hurts more than finding out someone you love has lied to you.”
― Fiona Paul

“To my lovely starling,
Maybe there are magical words that will make you understand, but if so, I do not know them. Words are your domain. I've always been better with pictures.
I fear you think I am a monster. It's true I've disrupted many graves. The way I see it, the dead are dead. If, after their death, we can learn things from the about the human form - things that will increase the sum of human knowledge and the possibilities of art - what harm is that? After death, new life, new beauty. How can that be wrong? My friends and I have made use of some of the bodies as models. some we sell to surgeons who study them with the hopes of learning something about the frail mechanisms of the human body.
I don't know exactly what Dottor de Gradi does in his workshop on the Rialto, and I was as surprised as you were to stumble on it. He couldn't - he wouldn't tell me if your friend's body ended up there. But he did assure me all of his work is focused solely on extending human life.
I won't lie. I did it for the money as well. Don Loredan is holding a private exhibition in his palazzo tomorrow. The entry fee was quite steep but two of my paintings were accepted. This could be the beginning for me. I could find my own patrons. I could be more than just a peasant. Tommaso's assistant.
So yes; a little for money. But mostly I did for the art.
I don't expect these words to change how you feel. I simply want you not to see me as a monster. I don't want to be a monster. Not anymore. Not after meeting you. I know that we disrupted you dear friend's body, and for that I am deeply regretful. But if we had not done so, if I had not lingered in the San Domenico churchyard after standing guard for my friends, you and I might never have met. Meeting you is one thing I will never regret.
I hope you like the painting. Consider tit a wedding gift. How stupid of me to let my heart go. It was a lovely fantasy while it lasted, though, wasn't it?
Yours,
Falco”
― Fiona Paul, Venom

““The healer and the killer
both rely on the blade:
the physician his scalpel,
the assassin his dagger.”

-THE BOOK OF THE ETERNAL ROSE”
― Fiona Paul, Venom

“After all, death and life are just two phases of the natural order of things. It seems silly to embrace birth and fear death.”
― Fiona Paul, Venom

“Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Constant Princess