16 Quotes by Magnus Flyte

Men were ridiculous, in all cultures and across time.

Eleanor was all apologies, but Sarah enjoyed seeing a bit more of the Czech countryside. You probably couldn't say that you had really seen a country if all you had seen was a city or two. You had to see where the food was grown, what the riverbanks looked like, and what the highway manners of the inhabitants were.

Love makes people so stupid.

Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwise experienced life intensely, for better or worse, you left a record. Those who lived a quiet, well-behaved, well-tempered life? Gone without a trace.

History should be studied but not worshipped.

The Nazis had been one thing. The communists were another. But now there were academics crawling all over the palace.

The city was in a panic, though a panic in Italy means most people still stand around coffee bars drinking espresso and Prosecco.

Rules of science.” Alessandro shrugged his elegant shoulders. “And what are those? We don’t even know how this works.” He pointed to his head.

Prague is a threshold.”“A threshold?”“Yes. Between the life of good and … the other.”Sarah thought of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. “I’m not going to have to fight demons, am I?