Deborah Harkness Quotes

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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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  Children, Responsibility, Land

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• Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

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  Past, Remember, Souvenirs

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.478, Penguin

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• Just because something seems impossible doesn't make it untrue.

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  Impossible, Untrue, Seems

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.159, 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.

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  Hurt, Blessing, Love Is

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.257, 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.

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  Two, Focus, Trying

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin

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• Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.

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  Memories, World, Way

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.1027, 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.

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  Mean, Opportunity, Devil

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.208, Penguin

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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.

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  Sweet, Butterfly, Fire

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.204, 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.

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  Blood, Secret, Vampire

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.26, 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.

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  Views, Magic, Important

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

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  Focus, Cameras, Lenses

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.60, Penguin

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• That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of me, like a dark star guiding me home.

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  Stars, Home, Sunset

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.63, Penguin

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• And happiness is always louder than sadness.

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  Sadness

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.403, Penguin

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• the first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other.

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  War, Allies, Requirements

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.408, Penguin

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• Somewhere in the center of my soul, a rusty chain began to unwind. It freed itself, link by link, from where it had rested, unobserved, waiting for him. My hands, which had been balled up and pressed against his chest, unfurled with it. The chain continued to drop, to an unfathomable depth where there was nothing but darkness and Matthew. At last it snapped to its full length, anchoring me to a vampire. Despite the manuscript, despite the fact that my hands contained enough voltage to run a microwave, and despite the photograph, as long as I was connected to him, I was safe.

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  Running, Hands, Long

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.172, Penguin

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• As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.

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  Years, Two, Desire

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• With knot of one, the spell's begun. With knot of two, the spell be true. With knot of three, the spell is free. With knot of four, the power is stored. With knot of five, the spell with thrive. With knot of six, this spell I fix.

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  Two, Three, Four

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• Remember the past - and await the future.

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  Past, Remember, Remembering The Past

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.484, Penguin

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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.

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  Blood, Best Effort, Vision

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.240, Penguin

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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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  Pain, Healing, Dying

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

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  Powerful, Magic, Vampire

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

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• The king just sits there, moving one square at a time. The queen can move so freely. I suppose I’d rather lose the game than forfeit her freedom.

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  Kings, Queens, Moving

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.101, Penguin

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• It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

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  Discovery, Blood, Desire

  Deborah Harkness (2012). “Shadow of Night: A Novel”, p.337, Penguin

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• Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

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  Opportunity, Judgement, Fleeting

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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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  Writing, Years, People

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