All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

Just because something seems impossible doesn't make it untrue.

These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy, and electricity. If it went bang, involved blood, or promised to unlock the secrets of the universe, there was sure to be a vampire around.

The king just sits there, moving one square at a time. The queen can move so freely. I suppose I’d rather lose the game than forfeit her freedom.

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

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.