I had been in 1590 for less than twenty-four hours, but I was already heartily sick of Christopher Marlowe.
A man like Matthew never frees himself of the shadows completely. But perhaps it is necessary to embrace the darkness in order to love him,” Philippe continued.
Survival and sexuality were linked in ways I’d never appreciated until now.
You’re taking this very well, Gallowglass,” Diana said gratefully. “Matthew would be trying to talk me out of it.” “That’s what you get for falling in love with the wrong man,” he said under his breath, slipping the phone back into his pocket.
Everybody thinks the library is just a building, but it isn’t.
Because you will love him as you love no one else, I tied your magic to your feelings for him. Even so, only you will have the ability to draw it into the open.
Matthew had been accumulating secrets... My life might be too brief to hear them all, never mind understand them.
As I am the end, so my lover is the beginning. I encompass the whole work of creation, and all knowledge is hidden in me.
Neither his family nor his next taste of blood mattered as much as knowing that she was safe and within arm’s reach. If that was what it meant to be bewitched, he was a lost man.
Give me knowledge of my end and the measure of my days, so I may know my fraility. My lifetime is no longer than the width of my hand. It is only a moment, compared to yours.
The goddess does not want us to imitate some ideal of perfection, but to be our true selves.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. – THOMAS PAINE.
For us to be together, we needed to decide which secrets to share and then let the others go.
Now I have you. One day you will be gone, and my life will be over.
I know. You were nervous before you opened your eyes.
Oh, yes. I know all about vampires and their crazy ways.” Apparently, Fernando didn’t have the same reluctance as Matthew and Ysabeau did to tell vampire tales.
Let me love you forever.
Folks are always in favor of fairness, until they have to give up something they have to someone else.
Mark me well, Diana: Lives will be lost because of your love for my son... What does it matter who deals the deathblow? If you do not do it, then Matthew will.
Are you always like this? All dressed up in adrenaline and no place to go?