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English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.
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We don't lock up books in this house," Philippe said, "only food, ale, and wine. Reading Herodotus or Aquinas seldom leads to bad behavior.
— Deborah Harkness
Elizabeth Kostova's 2005 blockbuster, The Historian,
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Some promises matter more than others.
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Goddess does not want us to imitate some ideal of perfection, but to be our true selves.
— Deborah Harkness
You know that I'm not going to let the Holy Roman Emperor - or anybody else, for that matter - seduce me.
— Deborah Harkness
Why do today's women think it's important to open a door themselves?" he said sharply. "Do you believe it's a testament to your physical power?
— Deborah Harkness
I have a weakness for smart men.
— Deborah Harkness
Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
— Giordano Bruno
Sorry, we've got ghosts.
— Deborah Harkness
A wave of undergraduates arrived to disrupt the city's tranquillity.
— Deborah Harkness
But it's too soon for me to imagine losing you.
— Deborah Harkness
Daemons are brilliant, but we're not vicious - not like the vampires.
— Deborah Harkness
Do you wonder what it would be like for me to taste you?
— Deborah Harkness
I had been in 1590 for less than twenty-four hours, but I was already heartily sick of Christopher Marlowe.
— Deborah Harkness
Do not refuse me because I am dark and shadowed,' I whispered, remembering
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The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.
— Deborah Harkness
I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
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It smells like the past. But not the dead past. It's so alive.
— Deborah Harkness
Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.
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Whoever can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead.
— Deborah Harkness
You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.
— Deborah Harkness
It's doubtful we're the first creatures to love those we should not, and we surely won't be the last.
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Be careful, daughter ... You are a creature of the crossroads, neither here nor there. 'Tis a dangerous place to be.
— Deborah Harkness
Do not fear me because I am dark and shadowed
— Deborah Harkness
Mature? Widow? I had just turned thirty-three.
— Deborah Harkness
Children needed love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them.
— Deborah Harkness
This is why you have to stop keeping secrets, Matt. They're going to destroy you from the inside.
— Deborah Harkness
Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in action ... Magic is desire made real.
— Deborah Harkness
Change is the only reliable thing in the world.
— Deborah Harkness
Decide what to do to survive, and do it.
— Deborah Harkness
Secrets are unreliable allies. they allow us to believe we are safr, yet all the while they are destroying us.
— Deborah Harkness
It pained Emily to her librarian's soul to see books mistreated like this.
— Deborah Harkness
The first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other.
— Deborah Harkness
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.
— Deborah Harkness
Witches have their share of nasty legends to contend with, I said, thinking of the witch-hunts and the executions that followed.
— Deborah Harkness
To pleasant songs my work was once given, and bright were all my labors then; / But now in tears to sad refrains I must return.
— Deborah Harkness
Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.
— Deborah Harkness
Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.
— Deborah Harkness
Now most in the room accept we're more similar than different and treat one another with courtesy.
— Deborah Harkness
Like a siren who sings to the sailor, asking him to steer his ship into the rocks, the call of your blood could be my undoing - and yours.
— Deborah Harkness
Magic is desire made real.
— Deborah Harkness
And happiness is always louder than sadness.
— Deborah Harkness
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however,
— Deborah Harkness
It begins with absence and desire.
It begins with blood and fear.
It begins with a discovery of witches. — Deborah Harkness
It begins with blood and fear.
It begins with a discovery of witches. — Deborah Harkness
I want a simple, ordinary life ... like humans enjoy.
— Deborah Harkness
I know. You were nervous before you opened your eyes.
— Deborah Harkness
My ideas about vampires may be romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.
— Deborah Harkness
One should find wholeness in marriage, Gabriel, but it should not be a prison for either party, said Rabbi Loew.
— Deborah Harkness
I could still feel the chain that anchored me to Matthew, witch to vampire.
— Deborah Harkness
I promise not to draw blood, if you promise not to weep.
— Deborah Harkness
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
I sighed. "What can I do to convince you that I'm all right?" "Pick up the phone more often, for starters," she said grimly.
— Deborah Harkness
She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.
— Deborah Harkness
Don't consider painful what's good for you.
— Deborah Harkness
My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.
— Deborah Harkness
Like all parents, they were just doing their best from moment to moment.
— Deborah Harkness
All men are fools, Your Majesty," Matthew said swiftly.
— Deborah Harkness
For your wedding gift, I wish I had a spell that could make you see yourself as others do.' 'Based
— Deborah Harkness
Witches see the truth plainly - even if their husbands are full of nonsense.
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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.
— Deborah Harkness
We face a dark future if children stop asking questions, Susanna, Goody Alsop remarked.
— Deborah Harkness
Cheap wine is defined by its price, and it depends on personal spending limits. So for me, any wine under $10 is cheap.
— Deborah Harkness
Giving a woman your whole life is meaningless without giving her your whole heart as well.
— Deborah Harkness
Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.
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are you always like this, all dressed up in adrenaline, and no place to go?
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My wife had learned to give in to what someone older, stronger, and meaner wanted.
— Deborah Harkness
Now I want nothing more than to grow old with you," Matthew said.
— Deborah Harkness
We're witches - of course the house is haunted. But
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Now I have you. One day you will be gone, and my life will be over.
— Deborah Harkness
Stop trying to be perfect. Try being real for a change.
— Deborah Harkness
The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.
— Deborah Harkness
Remember the past - and await the future.
— Deborah Harkness
We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.
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Here's Fernando, Sarah said in a tone suggesting that deliverance had come at last.
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monsters always look just like ordinary men.
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Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.
— Deborah Harkness
I don't expect you to have no regrets about who you've lost along the way. How could you not have been loved before, when I love you so much?
— Deborah Harkness
It's one thing to wander in the darkness because you know no different, but it's quite another to enjoy the light only to have it taken from you,
— Deborah Harkness
I see you, even when you hide from the rest of the world. I hear you, even when you're silent.
— Deborah Harkness
Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.
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I know,I can smell it, too,
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Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop.
— Deborah Harkness
If you truly love someone, you will cherish what they despise most about themselves.
— Deborah Harkness
I want what I shouldn't want, and I crave someone I can never have.
— Deborah Harkness
In every moment, for the rest of my life, I will be choosing you.
— Deborah Harkness
And then you weave a forspell that called forth a rowan tree simply to tame a firedrake. Had
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You're impossible. Stop worrying about what other women do. Be your own extraordinary self.
— Deborah Harkness
I trust my wife's judgement ... That's what Philippe says about Granny, just before all hell breaks loose.
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His eyes sent coldness deep under my skin, where it spread like a stain. "Domenico,
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Matthew feels deeply. It is a blessing as well as a burden to love to love so much that you can hurt badly when love is gone.
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I would rather have had this moment with you - just this one night - than centuries with someone else ...
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You tell me that magic is just desire made real. Maybe spells are nothing more than words that you believe with all your heart,
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rashers of bacon.
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Magic was nothing more than desire made real,
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