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  • Novelist
  • born 1965
  • 92 quotes

Deborah Harkness, a novelist (born 1965), is quoted 92 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Vampire, Desire, Two and Magic.

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Sorry, we've got ghosts.

I know,I can smell it, too.

Her bark is worse than her bite.

Smart is, and has always been, sexy.

Remember the past - and await the future.

And happiness is always louder than sadness.

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.

I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

the first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other.

Just because something seems impossible doesn't make it untrue.

Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.

As a historian, you can only go as far as the evidence will take you.

Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.

We would all be incredibly boring to a vampire who is 400, 500 years old.

I became a teacher because I wanted to make a difference in people's lives.

I am so thrilled to carve out a few minutes to write that I grab it whenever I can.

I re-read the books I assign to my students. Each time I do, I learn something new.

English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.

We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.

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

there’s nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing.

Be still,” he said, voice harsh. “I might not be able to control myself if you step away.

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

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.

It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.

All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

Falling in love is really relatively easy compared to staying in love and building a family that lasts.

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

What if 16th century people were right, and the supernatural and natural coexisted? How would that play out?

I absolutely love Dorothy Dunnett's 'House of Niccolo' series and the 'Lymond Chronicles.' They are so detailed.

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.

Cheap wine is defined by its price, and it depends on personal spending limits. So for me, any wine under $10 is cheap.

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.

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.

The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

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.

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.

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.

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

My most fertile reading time is when I have just finished a project and haven't started another. I binge-read and surf around bookstores.

Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

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.

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.

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.

I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

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.

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