Deborah Harkness Quotes
All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.
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.
Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.
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.
It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.
She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.
English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.
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.
Be still,” he said, voice harsh. “I might not be able to control myself if you step away.
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.
Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.
there’s nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing.
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.
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.
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.
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.
My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.
You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.
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.
It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.
The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.
Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.
My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.
My ideas about vampires may be romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.
Impossible, '" Matthew said."'Impossible n'est pas français, ' Ysabeau said, her tone tart as vinegar. 'And it certainly was not a word in your father's vocabulary.
Giving a woman your whole life is meaningless without giving her your whole heart as well.
Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop.
...empathy is the most important power there is. Without it, we are doomed. With it, we can truly change the world.(interview from USC)
If you truly love someone, you will cherish what they despise most about themselves" - Fernando Conclaves
I trust my wife's judgement... That's what Philippe says about Granny, just before all hell breaks loose.
