Joanne Harris Quotes - Page 3

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• A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.

  Joanne Harris

  Real, Tantrums, Littles

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• Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

  Joanne Harris

  Ancient, Modern, Difficult

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• The wind always brings us back to the same wall

  Joanne Harris

  Wall, Wind

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• A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.

  Joanne Harris

  Men, Shadow, Casts

  Joanne Harris (2010). “The Lollipop Shoes (Chocolat 2)”, p.34, Random House

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• Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.

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  Mean, Knows

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.69, Penguin

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• Guilleaume left La Praline with a small bag of florentines in his pocket; before he had turned the corner of avenue des Francs Bourgeois I saw him stoop to offer one to the dog. A pat, a bark, a wagging of the short stubby tail. As I said, some people never have to think about giving.

  Joanne Harris

  Dog, Thinking, People

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.30, Penguin

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• Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!

  Joanne Harris

  Stars, Fall, Clouds

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• The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

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  Evil, Chocolate, Battle

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.26, Penguin

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• I carried recipes in my head like maps.

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  Maps, Recipes

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.49, Penguin

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• I liked her better for showing a little spirit.

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  Littles, Spirit

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.208, Penguin

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• Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.

  Joanne Harris

  Mother, Home, Shadow

  Joanne Harris (2007). “The lollipop shoes”, Doubleday UK

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• A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

  Joanne Harris

  Good Luck, Midnight, Spiders

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.35, Penguin

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• Library-denigrators, pay heed:suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

  Joanne Harris

  Wife, Library, Pay

  Joanne Harris @Joannechocolat, twitter.com. February 14, 2013.

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• I'd rather be a freak than a clone.

  Joanne Harris

  Freak

  Joanne Harris (2007). “The lollipop shoes”, Doubleday UK

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• I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.

  Joanne Harris

  Gang, Cannons, Left

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• Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.

  Joanne Harris

  Feelings, Devil, Admiration

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• Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.

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  Queens, Cat, Night

  Joanne Harris (2007). “The lollipop shoes”, Doubleday UK

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• The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.

  Joanne Harris

  Writing, Littles, Madness

  Joanne Harris (2010). “Blackberry Wine”, p.210, Random House

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• Love not often, but forever.

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  Forever

  Joanne Harris (2009). “Holy Fools: A Novel”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• I speak as I must and cannot be silent.

  Joanne Harris

  Speak, Silent

  "Runemarks". Book by Joanne Harris, August 2, 2007.

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• I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

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  Dream, Sound, Stories

  "This much I know: Joanne Harris". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2010.

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• Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

  Joanne Harris

  Mother, Children, Mean

  Joanne Harris (2007). “The lollipop shoes”, Doubleday UK

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• As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.

  Joanne Harris

  Criticism, Way, Coping

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• My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.

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  Hero, Past, People

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• I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

  Joanne Harris

  Ideas

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