Deborah Harkness Quotes About Magic

Quotes about: Magic

• I saw the logic that they used, and the death of a thousand cuts as experimental scientists slowly chipped away at the belief that the world was an inexplicably powerful, magical place. Ultimately they failed, though. The magic never really went away. It waited, quietly, for people to return to it when they found the science wanting.

  Deborah Harkness

  Powerful, Cutting, People

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.72, Penguin

• there’s nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing.

  Deborah Harkness

  Powerful, Magic, Vampire

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.84, Penguin

• 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.

  Deborah Harkness

  Strong, Blood, Risk

• 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 Harkness

  Views, Magic, Important

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.71, Penguin

• 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.

  Deborah Harkness

  Writing, Years, People

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin