Antonio Cantoni

“Si soy un ángel, píntame con alas negras.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“If we Shadows have offended,” Julie began, her eyes bright with belladonna and magic, “Think but this, and all is mended, / That you have but slumber’d here / While these visions did appear.”
― Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle

“The Proctors relied on geometry and Jacobean literature, and I used the poems of Emily Dickinson, but it was Fleetwood Mac who inspired my mother’s gramarye. There wasn’t much to distinguish between William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and Stevie Nicks. They were all bards, after all, with magic in their pens. I showed Gwyneth the annotated lyrics. “She hid it in plain sight—in the words of her favorite songs. This is what she used to refresh old spells and keep them sharp.” Gwyneth gasped. “Rebecca used music?” “Apparently,” I replied, running my fingers across the underlining in “I Don’t Want to Know.” She’d written A powerful method for uncovering old secrets next to Finally baby / The truth has come down now.”
― Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle