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Joanne Harris Quotes: "Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive."

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



Joanne Harris Quotes: "It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference."

It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference.




Joanne Harris Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood."

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.




Joanne Harris Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia."

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



Joanne Harris Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end."

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



Joanne Harris Quotes: "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride."

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same."

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



Joanne Harris Quotes: "Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul."

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




Joanne Harris Quotes: "I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant."

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people."

I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality."

Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on."

People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews."

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



Joanne Harris Quotes: "I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines"

I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines



Joanne Harris Quotes: "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!"

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 Quotes: "For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars."

For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all."

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



Joanne Harris Quotes: "Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know."

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



Joanne Harris Quotes: "I carried recipes in my head like maps."

I carried recipes in my head like maps.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is"

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is



Joanne Harris Quotes: "You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food."

You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams."

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



Joanne Harris Quotes: "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."

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.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "I'd rather be a freak than a clone."

I'd rather be a freak than a clone.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "The dead know everything but they don't give a damn."

The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer."

Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "A named thing is a tamed thing."

A named thing is a tamed thing.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it."

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it."

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "Online communities are an expression of loneliness."

Online communities are an expression of loneliness.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "Was it my fault that I got out of hand? --Loki"

Was it my fault that I got out of hand? --Loki



Joanne Harris Quotes: "A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after."

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



Joanne Harris Quotes: "The process of giving is without limits."

The process of giving is without limits.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys."

I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained."

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there."

I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it."

I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending."

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "I speak as I must and cannot be silent."

I speak as I must and cannot be silent.



Joanne Harris Quotes: "The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign."

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



Joanne Harris Quotes: "Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life."

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



Joanne Harris Quotes: "Love not often, but forever."

Love not often, but forever.