That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of me, like a dark star guiding me home.

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

With knot of one, the spell's begun. With knot of two, the spell be true. With knot of three, the spell is free. With knot of four, the power is stored. With knot of five, the spell with thrive. With knot of six, this spell I fix.

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

English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.

Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.