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

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.

Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.

there’s nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing.

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

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

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.