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• Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.

  Deborah Harkness

  Desire, Urges

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.205, Penguin

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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.

  Deborah Harkness

  Yesterday, Giving, Body

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.75, Penguin

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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.

  Deborah Harkness

  Strong, Blood, Risk

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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)

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  Beautiful, Art, Eye

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.382, Penguin

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• In this room we understand why this war might be fought...it's about our common belief that no one has the right to tell two creatures that they cannot love each other--no matter what their species.

  Deborah Harkness

  War, Two, Might

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.464, 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.

  Deborah Harkness

  Kings, Queens, Moving

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

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• You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

  Deborah Harkness

  Saws, Holes, Carpet

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.168, Penguin

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

  Deborah Harkness

  Discovery, Blood, Desire

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

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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.

  Deborah Harkness

  Writing, Years, People

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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.

  Deborah Harkness

  Spiritual, Study, Witch

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• 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

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• Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.

  Deborah Harkness

  Kissing, Intimate, Palms

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.160, Penguin

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• I know,I can smell it, too.

  Deborah Harkness

  Smell, Knows, I Can

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.243, Penguin

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• Her bark is worse than her bite.

  Deborah Harkness

  Bark, Bites

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.197, Penguin

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• Be still,” he said, voice harsh. “I might not be able to control myself if you step away.

  Deborah Harkness

  Control Myself, Voice, Might

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.156, Penguin

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• 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

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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

  Deborah Harkness

  Garden, Hair, Vampire

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

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• 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

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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.

  Deborah Harkness

  Hate, Names, Gabriel

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

  Deborah Harkness

  Two, Vampire, Pretzels

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

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• I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

  Deborah Harkness

  Simple, Ordinary, Want

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.83, Penguin

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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.

  Deborah Harkness

  Men, Darkness, Titles

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.527, Penguin

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• My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

  Deborah Harkness

  Tudors, Firsts, Return

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.525, Penguin

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• It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.

  Deborah Harkness

  War, Two, Impulse

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.158, Penguin

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• Sorry, we've got ghosts.

  Deborah Harkness

  Sorry, Ghost

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.390, Penguin

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