And Marcus had never seen his father so coldly furious as he was now.
I just can’t believe there’s a vampire at Yale.
No!’ My voice was louder than I intended. It dropped to a whisper. ‘I am not being driven out of this library – not by you, not by anyone.
It took me eighteen hours to bring that boy into the world, and no time at all for some idiot with a gun to steal him away.” Mistress Bishop pulled a small bottle out of her pocket. “War is such a waste of women’s time.
Art and music must come from the heart,” Matthew said, gripping his great-grandson by the shoulder. “Even the darkest places need to be brought into the light of day, or else they’ll grow until they swallow a man whole.
The disgust. The fear. The dislike of anybody who doesn’t conform to your simpleminded expectations of the world and how it should work.
Se souvenir du passe, et qu’il ya un avenir.
Bewitched has provided my mother’s generation with their supernatural primer. For mine it was Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Whichever creature has introduced Joss Whedon to our world has a lot to answer for.
Ysabeau flung the book aside and reached for another. It pained Emily to her librarian’s soul to see books mistreated like this.
But you don’t need words to tell me what you feel,” Matthew said. “I see you, even when you hide from the rest of the world. I hear you, even when you’re silent.
Baldwin Montclair, as he was known in the financial markets, strode down the hall of the ground floor. His copper-colored hair gleamed in the electric light, and his muscles twitched with the quick reflexes of a born athlete. Trained to wield a sword from childhood, he had been imposing before becoming a vampire, and after his rebirth few dared to cross him.
The middle son in Philippe de Clermont’s brood of three male children, Baldwin had been made a vampire in Roman times and had been Philippe’s favorite. They were cut from the same cloth – fond of war, women, and wine, in that order. Despite these amiable characteristics, those who faced him in combat seldom lived to recount the experience.
To Baldwin fell the battle strategies, his sharp mind quick to analyze every plan for flaws and weaknesses.
Baldwin strode in front, and people hastily got out of our way.
The forest has eyes, and the woods have ears; therefore I will see, be silent, and hear.
Even so I gasped in surprise when our two bodies became one – warm and cold, light and dark, female and male, witch and vampire, a conjunction of opposites.
As for this darkness we all feel, you will tell me about it one day. I will not take the knowledge from you.
It was difficult at first, not to have all the answers. Over the years I’ve forgotten how much fun it is to have nothing but questions.
Like sun and moon, we were unconcerned at this moment with time, distance, and differences. All that mattered was our position relative to each other.
I take it that witches aren’t supposed to hang out with vampires?’ ‘Or with daemons. It makes humans uncomfortable,’ Matthew said. ‘Uncomfortable?’ Chris looked dubious. ‘So did blacks sitting on buses next to white people. Segregation isn’t the answer.