Magdalena

“If you can’t have a little fun when you’re carrying out an assassination, then what’s the point?”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, The Last American Vampire

“There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably goes like this: Someone shrugs off the weight of his cultural traditions, ignores the baleful stares of authority, and does something his countrymen think to be completely batshit insane. Of those, Galileo was my personal favorite. Van Gogh comes in second, but he really was batshit insane.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hounded

“She was a story, not an epilogue.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader