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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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Powerful, Cutting, People

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

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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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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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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.

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War, Two, Might

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

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