Deborah Harkness Quotes About Vampires

Quotes about: Vampires

• 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 Harkness

  Blood, Best Effort, Vision

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

• 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 Harkness

  Blood, Secret, Vampire

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

• 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.

  Deborah Harkness

  Running, Hands, Long

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

• My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.

  Deborah Harkness

  Attitude, Ideas, Vampire

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.244, Penguin

• Be yourself-- Matthew Clairmont. Complete with your sharp vampire teeth and your scary mother, your test tubes full of blood and your DNA, your infuriating bossiness and your maddening sense of smell.

  Deborah Harkness

  Mother, Being Yourself, Smell

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.297, Penguin

• 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.

  Deborah Harkness

  Mean, Vampire, Sound

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.300, Penguin

• Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.

  Deborah Harkness

  Two, Vampire, Pretzels

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.849, 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

• 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

  Deborah Harkness

  Garden, Hair, Vampire

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.180, Penguin

• English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.

  Deborah Harkness

  Vampire, May, Witch

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.32, 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'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

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