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“A little book can hold a big secret – one that might change the world. You’re a witch. You know words have power.” (A Discovery of Witches Quotes)
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“A vampire’s life was measured not in hours or years but in secrets revealed and kept.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“A witch shouldn’t keep secrets from other witches. Bad things happen when she does.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“All you have to do is be a good listener. Nobody really wants to keep secrets, not even the dead. People leave clues everywhere, and if you pay attention, you can piece them together.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“And happiness is always louder than sadness.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“Anyone who has read paperback bestsellers or even watched television knows that vampires are breathtaking, but nothing prepares you to actually see one. Their bone structures are so well honed that they seem chiseled by an expert sculptor. Then they move, or speak, and your mind can’t begin to absorb what you’re seeing. Every movement is graceful; every word is musical. And their eyes are arresting, which is precisely how they catch their prey. One long look, a few quiet words, a touch: once you’re caught in a vampire’s snare you don’t stand a chance.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“As far as I can tell, there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning, year after year. One is fear. The other is desire.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“Every time I pick up a book or a document from the past, I’m in a battle with people who lived hundreds of years ago. They have their secrets and obsessions – all the things they won’t or can’t reveal. It’s my job to discover and explain them.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“Everybody thinks the library is just a building, but it isn’t.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“Explanations, like medicines, go down easier when accompanied by liquid refreshment.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“I can tell you as a scientist, that there’s no such thing as ‘normal.’ ‘Normal’ is a bedtime story – a fable – that humans tell themselves to feel better when faced with overwhelming evidence that most of what’s happening around them is not ‘normal’ at all.” (A Discovery of Witches Quotes)
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“I don’t mind one moment of love that you’ve shared with any creature, living or dead, so long as you want to be with me right at this moment.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“I don’t want to look back on a life where I took everything rather than earned it.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“I have never been a radical! Change is very much overrated.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“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.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“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
A Discovery of Witches
“I would rather have had this moment with you—just this one night—than centuries with someone else…”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“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.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“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
A Discovery of Witches
“It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“It will not be the first time my children have driven me to tears. But I wouldn’t give up the sorrow if it meant giving up the joy as well.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“It’s a historian’s job to uncover secrets. And I’m very good at it.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“It’s a scientist’s prerogative to change his mind as new information comes to light.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“Just because something seems impossible doesn’t make it untrue,”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“Like all parents, they were just doing their best from moment to moment.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“Magic is desire made real. When a witch concentrates on something she wants, and then imagines how she might get it, she can make it happen.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“Making love should be about intimacy, about knowing another’s body as well as your own.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“Modern creatures are always in such a hurry. Call me old-fashioned if you’d like, but I want to enjoy every moment of our courtship.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“My ideas about vampires may be romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“My life now has a beginning, middle, and an end. Everything before was preamble. Now I have you. One day you will be gone, and my life will be over.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“No one sees as many centuries as I have without being careful. I’m always careful. Now more than ever, since I have so much more to lose.” (A Discovery of Witches Quotes)
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“Some promises matter more than others.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“That’s the most important lesson a warrior learns, witch. You learn how to pick your battles and let go of those you can’t win, to fight another day.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“The first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“The life stories of a vampire are theirs to tell – and theirs alone.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“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)”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“The scars don’t bother me. They are just signs that I’ve fought and survived.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“The strongest distinguishing characteristic of humans is their power of denial. I have strength and long life, you have supernatural abilities, daemons have awe-inspiring creativity. Humans can convince themselves up is down and black is white. It’s their special gift.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“There’s magic inside you, Diana, and it wants to get out, whether you ask for it or not.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“This was so different from books and movies, where love was made into something tense and difficult. Loving Matthew was much more like coming into port than heading out into a storm.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“Try not to be too hard on yourself as you journey into the future. Keep your wits about you, and trust your instincts. It’s not much in the way of advice, but it’s all that a mother can give.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“Whiskey made it possible to close your eyes at night without hating yourself for everything you’d been ordered to do that day.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“Whoever can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“Why do vampires have such a strange attitude toward time? Witches don’t have centuries to fall in love. We do it quickly.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“Witches, vampires, and daemons aren’t supposed to mix. You know that. Humans are more likely to notice us when we do. No daemon or vampire is worth the risk.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.”
Deborah Harkness
A Discovery of Witches
“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
A Discovery of Witches