The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.
Be yourself-- Matthew Clairmont. Complete with your sharp vampire teeth and your scary mother, your test tubes full of blood and your DNA, your infuriating bossiness and your maddening sense of smell.
Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.
I saw the logic that they used, and the death of a thousand cuts as experimental scientists slowly chipped away at the belief that the world was an inexplicably powerful, magical place. Ultimately they failed, though. The magic never really went away. It waited, quietly, for people to return to it when they found the science wanting.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed (Albert Einstein)
Are you smelling me?” After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. “Don't tempt me,” he murmured.
Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires weren’t the only creatures who had to manage such strong impulses. Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in action. Witchcraft was different- that took spells and rituals. But magic? A wish, a need, a hunger too strong to be denied- these could turn into deeds when they cross a witch’s mind.
English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.
Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak of ruthlessness as wide as the Mississippi
My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.
Sir. My lord. Master Roydon." The young man blurted out most available titles except for "Your Majesty" and "Prince of Darkness." These were implied nonetheless.
Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making knowledge was during a period of fundamental epistemological change. This is a finely crafted and conceptualized collection.
Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.
His full name is Matthew Gabriel Philippe Bertrand Sebastien de Clermont. He was also a very good Sebastien, and a passable Gabriel. He hates Bertrand and will not answer to Philippe.
We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.
My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.
I know,I can smell it, too.
Her bark is worse than her bite.
I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.
I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.
In this room we understand why this war might be fought...it's about our common belief that no one has the right to tell two creatures that they cannot love each other--no matter what their species.
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.
Be still,” he said, voice harsh. “I might not be able to control myself if you step away.
You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.
Sorry, we've got ghosts.
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