Joanne Harris Quotes

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• Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

  Joanne Harris

  Happiness, Sweet, Heart

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.146, Penguin

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• She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

  Joanne Harris

  Eye, Thoughtful, Looks

  Joanne Harris (2009). “The Girl with No Shadow: A Novel”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.

  Joanne Harris

  Change, Facts, Facts Of Life

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• I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

  Joanne Harris

  Letting Go, Home, Acceptance

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• A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.

  Joanne Harris

  Years, Medicine, Differences

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• I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

  Joanne Harris

  Leaving, Chance, Fragments

  Joanne Harris (2012). “Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)”, p.456, Random House

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• Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

  Joanne Harris

  People, Waiting, Sitting

  Joanne Harris (2012). “Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)”, p.197, Random House

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• If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.

  Joanne Harris

  Writing, Care, Want

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• Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.

  Joanne Harris

  Life Is, Celebration Of Life, Celebrate

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.176, Penguin

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• Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes. It has a million voices. It unleashes the tongue, teasing out secrets you never meant to tell, secrets you never even knew. It shouts, rants, whispers. It speaks of great plans, tragic loves, and terrible betrayals. It screams with laughter. It chuckles softly to itself. It weeps in front of its own reflection. It revives summers long past and memories best forgotten. Every bottle a whiff of other times, other places, everyone...a humble miracle

  Joanne Harris

  Summer, Laughter, Memories

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• We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats; rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance.

  Joanne Harris

  Summer, Wind, Rushing

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• Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

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  Survival, Alternatives, Sometimes

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.133, Penguin

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• Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.

  Joanne Harris

  Book, Heart, Soul

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• A named thing is a tamed thing.

  Joanne Harris

  Tamed

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• In any case, fire burns; that's its nature, and you can't expect to change that. You can use it to cook your meat or to burn down your neighbor's house. And is the fire you use for cooking any different from the one you use for burning? And does that mean you should eat your supper raw?" Maddy shook her head, still puzzled. "So what you're saying is . . . I shouldn't play with fire," she said at last. Of course you should," said One-Eye gently. "But don't be surprised if the fire plays back.

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  Eye, Mean, Fire

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• That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it, and so do I - even here, even now - as it sweeps us like leaves into his backseat corner, dancing us to shreds against the stones. V'la l'bon vent, v'a l'joli vent. I though we'd silenced it for good. But the smallest thing can wake the wind@ a word, a sign, even a death. There's no such thing as a trivial thing. Everything costs; it all adds up until finally the balance shifts and we're gone again, back on the road, telling ourselves - well maybe next time

  Joanne Harris

  Mother, Moving, Wind

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• You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.

  Joanne Harris

  Writing, Broken Inside, Needs

  Joanne Harris (2010). “Blackberry Wine”, p.65, Random House

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• Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

  Joanne Harris

  Pain, Anticipation, Misery

  Joanne Harris (2001). “Five Quarters of the Orange”

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• One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.

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  Real, Writing, Views

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• This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.

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  World, Lasts, Firsts

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• In my dreams I gorge on chocolates, I roll in chocolates, and their texture is not brittle but soft as flesh, like a thousand mouths on my body, devouring me in fluttering small bites. To die beneath their tender gluttony seems the culmination of every temptation I have ever known.

  Joanne Harris

  Dream, Temptation, Chocolate

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.188, Penguin

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• I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

  Joanne Harris

  Procrastination, Degrees, Paranoia

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• The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things.

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  Everyday Things, Magic, Warning

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• Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.

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  Character, People, Looks

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• Garden work clears the mind.

  Joanne Harris

  Garden, Mind

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