My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

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.

the first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other.