It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.

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)

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.

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

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

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

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