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Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us. — Georgia Harkness

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

Everyone who has ever been in pain knows that morphine and magic are the same. — Deborah Harkness

Elizabeth Kostova's 2005 blockbuster, The Historian, — Deborah Harkness

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

While religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion. — Georgia Harkness

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me. — Giordano Bruno

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

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary — Richard Harkness

Survival and sexuality were linked in ways I'd never appreciated until now. He — 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

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

It's doubtful we're the first creatures to love those we should not, and we surely won't be the last. — Deborah Harkness

If you truly love someone, you will cherish what they despise most about themselves. — Deborah Harkness

Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop. — Deborah Harkness

I know,I can smell it, too, — Deborah Harkness

Change is the only reliable thing in the world. — Deborah Harkness

Be careful, daughter ... You are a creature of the crossroads, neither here nor there. 'Tis a dangerous place to be. — Deborah Harkness

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it. — Deborah Harkness

Do not refuse me because I am dark and shadowed,' I whispered, remembering — Deborah Harkness

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno. — Deborah Harkness

The strongest distinguishing characteristic of humans is their power of denial. — Deborah Harkness

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

That will save me from me breaking the window or picking her lock, he thought. — Deborah Harkness

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. — Deborah Harkness

It begins with absence and desire.
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

Magic is desire made real. — Deborah Harkness

To pray well one must pray much. — Georgia Harkness

The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own. — Georgia Harkness

Children needed love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them. — Deborah Harkness

It smells like the past. But not the dead past. It's so alive. — Deborah Harkness

Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power. — Georgia Harkness

Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult. — Deborah Harkness

Whoever can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead. — Deborah Harkness

Churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it. — Georgia Harkness

I had been in 1590 for less than twenty-four hours, but I was already heartily sick of Christopher Marlowe. — Deborah Harkness

You're impossible. Stop worrying about what other women do. Be your own extraordinary self. — Deborah Harkness

Do not fear me because I am dark and shadowed — Deborah Harkness

And if we all did what we should, we would wake to find ourselves in paradise — Deborah Harkness

Mature? Widow? I had just turned thirty-three. — Deborah Harkness

are you always like this, all dressed up in adrenaline, and no place to go? — Deborah Harkness

The truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work. — Georgia Harkness

For your wedding gift, I wish I had a spell that could make you see yourself as others do.' 'Based — Deborah Harkness

The principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods. — Georgia Harkness

Witches see the truth plainly - even if their husbands are full of nonsense. — Deborah Harkness

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

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship. — Georgia 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

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

All men are fools, Your Majesty," Matthew said swiftly. — Deborah Harkness

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 — Deborah Harkness

Now I have you. One day you will be gone, and my life will be over. — Deborah Harkness

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. — Georgia 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. — Deborah Harkness

Here's Fernando, Sarah said in a tone suggesting that deliverance had come at last. — Deborah Harkness

The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology. — Georgia Harkness

monsters always look just like ordinary men. — 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 — Deborah Harkness

We all know how to pray better than we practice what we know! — Georgia Harkness

I see you, even when you hide from the rest of the world. I hear you, even when you're silent. — Deborah Harkness

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured. — Georgia Harkness

I trust my wife's judgement ... That's what Philippe says about Granny, just before all hell breaks loose. — Deborah Harkness

His eyes sent coldness deep under my skin, where it spread like a stain. "Domenico, — Deborah Harkness

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. — Deborah Harkness

I would rather have had this moment with you - just this one night - than centuries with someone else ... — Deborah Harkness

I want what I shouldn't want, and I crave someone I can never have. — Deborah Harkness

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history. — Georgia Harkness

A sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors. — Georgia Harkness

You tell me that magic is just desire made real. Maybe spells are nothing more than words that you believe with all your heart, — Deborah Harkness

rashers of bacon. — Deborah Harkness

Magic was nothing more than desire made real, — Deborah Harkness

Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate. — 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