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Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2) QUOTES

Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2) QUOTES

1 " Don't consider painful what's good for you. "

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

2 " I trust my wife's judgement... That's what Philippe says about Granny, just before all hell breaks loose. "

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

3 " Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop. "

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

4 " Giving a woman your whole life is meaningless without giving her your whole heart as well. "

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

5 " I had been in 1590 for less than twenty-four hours, but I was already heartily sick of Christopher Marlowe. "

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

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

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

7 " Think and stay alive. - Phillipe de Clermont "

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

8 " He did. I swear it. Baldwin ordered him to leave or face the same fate as the Impaler. You should have seen Baldwin’s face. The devil himself wouldn’t have disobeyed your brother. "

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

9 " 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. "

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

10 " Some swore he was a maid in man's attire,
For in his looks were all that men desire,
A pleasant smiling cheeke, a speaking eye,
A brow for loveto banquet roiallye,
And such as knew he was a man would say,
Leander, thou art made for amorous play:
Why art thou not in love and lov'd of all? "

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

11 " For storms will rage and oceans roar,
When Gabriel stands on sea and shore,
And as he blows his wondrous horn,
Old worlds die and new be born. "

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

12 " Significa che io amo lei e lei ama me. Indipendentemente da quel che dirò agli altri, la verità è questa. Chiaro? "

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

13 " Vampires reckon time differently than warmbloods do," he said, still unwilling to release me. "How long is a vampire minute, then?" I asked, snuggling under his chin. "It's hard to say," Matthew murmured. "Some length of time between an ordinary minute and forever. "

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

14 " According to human accounts, Dracula lived on for centuries – he may still be living. Are you sure he’s really dead?’ I asked. ‘I watched Baldwin rip his head off and bury it thirty miles away from the rest of his body. He was really dead then, and he’s really dead now.’ Gallowglass looked at me reprovingly. ‘You should know better than to believe these human stories, Auntie. They’ve never got more than a speck of truth in them. "

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

15 " Is Baldwin involved? Did he lose a million euros today?’ His brother-in-law was an acquired taste, and Ernst didn’t entirely trust him. Baldwin had trained him in the intricacies of international commerce when Ernst was still a young man. "

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

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

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

17 " In every moment, for the rest of my life, I will be choosing you. "

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

18 " We don’t lock up books in this house,” Philippe said, “only food, ale, and wine. Reading Herodotus or Aquinas seldom leads to bad behavior. "

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

19 " Children needed love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them. "

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)

20 " Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel. "

― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)