Deborah Harkness Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.”
-- Deborah HarknessSource : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.204, Penguin
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“All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.”
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“You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.”
-- Deborah HarknessSource : Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.240, Penguin
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“Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.”
-- Deborah HarknessSource : Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.208, Penguin
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“Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.”
-- Deborah HarknessSource : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.478, Penguin
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“It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.”
-- Deborah HarknessSource : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.257, Penguin
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“Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.”
-- Deborah HarknessSource : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.1027, Penguin
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“She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.”
-- Deborah HarknessSource : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.60, Penguin
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“These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy, and electricity. If it went bang, involved blood, or promised to unlock the secrets of the universe, there was sure to be a vampire around.”
-- Deborah HarknessSource : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.26, Penguin
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“Scholars do one of two things when they discover information that doesn't fit what they already know. Either they sweep it aside so it doesn't bring their cherished theories into question or they focus on it with laserlike intensity and try to get to the bottom of the mystery.”
-- Deborah HarknessSource : Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin
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“Just because something seems impossible doesn’t make it untrue,”
-- Deborah HarknessSource : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.159, Penguin
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“I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.”
-- Deborah HarknessSource : Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.71, Penguin
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“His full name is Matthew Gabriel Philippe Bertrand Sebastien de Clermont. He was also a very good Sebastien, and a passable Gabriel. He hates Bertrand and will not answer to Philippe.”
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“It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.”
-- Deborah HarknessSource : Deborah Harkness (2012). “Shadow of Night: A Novel”, p.337, Penguin
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“My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.”
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“Ni muer ni viu ni no guaris, Ni mal no·m sent e si l’ai gran, Quar de s’amor no suy devis, Ni no sai si ja n’aurai ni quan, Qu’en lieys es tota le mercés Que·m pot sorzer o decazer.†“Not dying nor living nor healing, there is no pain in my sickness, for I am not kept from her love. I don’t know if I will ever have it, for all the mercy that makes me flourish or decay is in her power.”
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“Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.”
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“I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.”
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“I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.”
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“Sir. My lord. Master Roydon." The young man blurted out most available titles except for "Your Majesty" and "Prince of Darkness." These were implied nonetheless.”
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“Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.”
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“The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.”
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“And happiness is always louder than sadness.”
-- Deborah HarknessSource : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.403, Penguin
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“Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak of ruthlessness as wide as the Mississippi”
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“English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.”
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“Are you smelling me?†After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. “Don't tempt me,†he murmured.”
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“there’s nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing.”
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“Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires weren’t the only creatures who had to manage such strong impulses. Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in action. Witchcraft was different- that took spells and rituals. But magic? A wish, a need, a hunger too strong to be denied- these could turn into deeds when they cross a witch’s mind.”
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“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed (Albert Einstein)”
-- Deborah Harkness
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