Witches see the truth plainly – even if their husbands are full of nonsense.
The fact that everyone else seemed to find it relaxing only added to my anxiety.
When creatures refused to use proper names, it was a way of denying that those who were not like you were your equals.
According to human accounts, Dracula lived on for centuries – he may still be living. Are you sure he’s really dead?’ I asked. ‘I watched Baldwin rip his head off and bury it thirty miles away from the rest of his body. He was really dead then, and he’s really dead now.’ Gallowglass looked at me reprovingly. ‘You should know better than to believe these human stories, Auntie. They’ve never got more than a speck of truth in them.
I sighed. “What can I do to convince you that I’m all right?” “Pick up the phone more often, for starters,” she said grimly.
Magic was nothing more than desire made real, after all.
Something had just happened. Something magical.
Henry seemed puzzled by my reaction to an ordinary dish of fruit but was too well bred to comment.
And I am here for only one reason: To make a difference.
Hearts cannot be broken, Diana. And only love makes us truly immortal.
Even for Philadelphia, it had been a prodigiously warm summer. “Why hasn’t Dr. Franklin invented a way to stop it?
In November 2009 archivist Rima Jaen at the Goncalves archives in Seville, Spain, comes across Diana’s journal in a forgotten box in the archive attics.
But it wasn’t all right. The whole world felt discordant and wrong, with colors that were too bright and sounds so loud they made me jump. My body felt hollow, and no matter what I tried to read, the words failed to keep my attention.
I have come to serve you with a warning, Diana Bishop. Relationships between witches and vampires are forbidden. You must leave this house and no longer associate with Matthew de Clermont or any of his family. If you don’t, the Congregation will take whatever steps are necessary to preserve the covenant.
You have a lot to learn about witches.
Philippe was right. There were times when Matthew behaved like an idiot – or the most arrogant man alive.
And his stillness made me realize how much I moved, constantly blinking, breathing, and rearranging myself.
Our arrival there and not at a busier, more crowded airport on the other side of town was yet another example of the magical efficiency and convenience of vampire travel.
Come Jack. On the way to Sept-Tours, I will tell you the story about the time Baldwin attempted to banish me from Jerusalem. Many men died.
The house was winning, thanks to its chief weapon: Fleetwood Mac. Sarah had bashed Mom’s old radio to bits two days after we found it during a never-ending concert of “The Chain.” The house retaliated by removing all the toilet-paper rolls from the bathroom cabinets and replacing them with a variety of electronic gadgets capable of playing music. It made for a rousing morning.