If you truly love someone, you will cherish what they despise most about themselves.
Whoever can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead.
In every moment, for the rest of my life, I will be choosing you.
I have a weakness for smart men.
We don’t lock up books in this house,” Philippe said, “only food, ale, and wine. Reading Herodotus or Aquinas seldom leads to bad behavior.
I would rather have had this moment with you – just this one night – than centuries with someone else...
Change is the only reliable thing in the world.
Normal’ is a bedtime story-a fable-that humans tell themselves to feel better when faced with overwhelming evidence that most of what’s happening around them is not ‘normal’ at all.
You’re impossible. Stop worrying about what other women do. Be your own extraordinary self.
You have always been a child between, a witch apart. But there is no path forward that does not have him in it. Whichever way you go, you must choose him.
My life now has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everything before was preamble. Now I have you. One day you will be gone, and my life will be over.
He walks through your future, but he’s in the past as well. He’s always in shadows, never in the light. And though he’s dangerous, the shadowed man doesn’t pose a threat to you.
Giving a woman your whole life is meaningless without giving her your whole heart as well.
The strongest distinguishing characteristic of humans is their power of denial.
I turned to leave, then whirled around and flung my arms around Philippe’s massive shoulders. How could such a man ever be broken? “What is it?” Philippe murmured, taken aback. “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.” “How could it be otherwise,” Philippe said gently, “when you are in my heart?
The secret is that I may be the head of the Bishop-Clairmont family, but you are its heart,” he whispered. “And the three of us are in perfect agreement: The heart is more important.
You have found a woman who is worthy of you, with courage and hope to spare, Matthaios.’ ‘I know,’ Matthew said, taking my hand. ‘Know this, too: you are equally worthy of her. Stop regretting your life. Start living it.
I trust my wife’s judgement... That’s what Philippe says about Granny, just before all hell breaks loose.
I’ve seen courage like yours before – from women, mostly.” Matthew continued as if I hadn’t spoken. “Men don’t have it. Our resolve is born out of fear. It’s merely bravado.
The most terrifying monsters always look just like ordinary men.