Witches aren’t the only creatures sharing the world with humans, however. There are also daemons – creative, artistic creatures who walk a tightrope between madness and genius.
Miracles should leave a mark, so that we can remember how precious they are.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again. – THOMAS PAINE.
Malachi Smith. Crispin Jones. Suzette Boudrot. Claude Le Breton.” Matthew paused as Ransome searched the ledger’s entries for the names. “You should have kept them in chronological order instead of alphabetical. That’s how I remember them.” Ransome.
Wars are fought on computers. This isn’t the thirteenth century. Hand-to-hand combat isn’t required.
The devil is in the details.
Do we understand each other?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘I’m so glad.’ Baldwin’s mouth lifted into a smile. ‘Answer your e-mail while you’re at it. I send you messages. You don’t answer. It’s aggravating.’ I nodded, afraid that if I opened my mouth, detailed instructions on just what he could do with his e-mail might pop out. Baldwin.
You were right,” I blurted, needing to make my own confession before tackling the subject of Knox. “I’ve never kept the magic out of my life. I’ve been using it in my work, without realizing it. It’s in everything. I’ve been fooling myself for years.
Elias Ashmole, a seventeenth-century book collector and alchemist whose books and papers had come to the Bodleian from the Ashmolean Museum in the nineteenth century, along with the number 782.
He did. I swear it. Baldwin ordered him to leave or face the same fate as the Impaler. You should have seen Baldwin’s face. The devil himself wouldn’t have disobeyed your brother.
Three grown men and a woman, and guess who gets stuck with the dragon?
Mature? Widow? I had just turned thirty-three.
Even the darkest places need to be brought into the light of day, or else they’ll grow until they swallow a man whole.
Desire urges me on, as fear bridles me.
I asked if you were hungry.” Why he continued to do so was a mystery – when was I not hungry?
And then you weave a forspell that called forth a rowan tree simply to tame a firedrake. Had.
And the only true fence against the world and all its dangers is a thorough knowledge of it,” Matthew said as we rocked in silence, together.
Mommy’s got a firecracker inside her,” was the way my father explained it with his wide indulgent grin, but firecrackers, I learned, were not simply bright and lively, they were unpredictable and they could startle and frighten you too.
Some say a witch’s true power comes from being a creature between life and death, light and darkness.
The touch we feel as a restraint when we are younger has a way of bringing us comfort later in our lives.