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If I had killed someone, it would certainly have come as no surprise to him, since he was always telling I'd end my days on the gallows. [Vincent]

I truly believed that the creation of hope was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies.

Yet the ink on the page was ancient, faded. (...) Fresh iron-gall ink was as black as Beelzebub's beards.

If they don't utter the words, it cannot happen. But words, once spoken, seal a man or maid for life or death. [Gisa]

God's hand can be seen in any occurrence for those who are determined to find it there, but then again, so can the devil's

Et moriendo docebo - I will teach you how to die.

His words burn like acid.

I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.

In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

Sometimes I feared I'd turn into a bat myself, stuck up there night and day, scrathing away. [Vincent]

He will not tell them that it lives, that it escaped them, That will be his treasured secret.

They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the whims of men.

I was about to add it was as likely a friendship as Lucifer and the Archangel Michael sharing a jug of ale, but I stopped myself. [Vincent]

On the shelves of her uncle's shop a jar contains the powdered skull of a suicide, a well-known cure for the falling sickness.

He didn't care that he'd be punished. Punishments always came to an end eventually. [Felix]

Edah Amsellah - The Tears of the Dragon

We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.

Those who kill can never be forgiven, for their victims cannot forgive them. And they go, drenched in guilt, to their graves. [Sylvian]

There was a new king and his name was pestilence. And he had created a new law - thou shalt do anything to survive.

I have been wronged by so many men that I find it hard to trust anyone and see only greed and malice in every heart. [Sylvian]

You will sleep till the stars fall from the heavens ans the seas turn into dust. [Father Arthmael]

Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.

Besides, I'm not sure they let ferrets into Heaven and I'd miss old Mavet.

The woman never used one word when she could torment ten.

The earth makes creatures well again. When you are sick you are put to bed, and when you are very sick, you are put into the earth to make you well.

The essence of the moon, gathered by a virgin, added to the death of innocence. [Sylvian]

Maybe that is what Hell is, being trapped for ever in your own nightmares and never being able to wake. [Gisa]

Curiosity was always my weakness and, once more, it got the better of me. [Vincent]

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

She was like an outline of the painting of the Holy Virgin that an artist has sketched in black and white, but not yet filled with colour.

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

We couldn't bring the sheep back to life, so there was nothing for it but to eat the evidence.

Sometimes mercy is not a kindness and pity is not love.

He was a good-looking man, but then rogues usually are

There was a man with the sun in the place of his head and a woman with the moon instead of a face.

You bear the mark of the ouroboros, the sign of eternal life. And what is that circle, but the shadow of the sun itself.

But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.

Even when you're terrified, or because fear sharpens the mind, you get flashes of blinding comprehension. [Vincent]

Hope itself is always genuine. It's only what it's placed in that can prove to be false.

It was a mark of just how saintly I was that I hand't smothered him to death long ago. [Vincent]

Reckon it's best if you don't have anyone you care about; then it can't hurt you. Don't have to be afraid of losing someone if you no one to lose.

Both the vessel and the receiver must be chosen carefully according to the nature of the ting to be distilled.

You are the sacred consummation of the sun and the moon and the shadow and you will become the poison of death. [Sylvian]