Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.

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.

Her bark is worse than her bite.

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.

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)

I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.