Deborah Harkness Quotes
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Deborah Harkness Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
You know that I'm not going to let the Holy Roman Emperor - or anybody else, for that matter - seduce me.
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?
It begins with absence and desire.
It begins with blood and fear.
It begins with a discovery of witches.
It begins with blood and fear.
It begins with a discovery of witches.
One should find wholeness in marriage, Gabriel, but it should not be a prison for either party, said Rabbi Loew.
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.
I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
I had been in 1590 for less than twenty-four hours, but I was already heartily sick of Christopher Marlowe.
Take care, Gallowglass," Matthew murmured. It was no casual farewell, but an order. His nephew nodded. "As if your wife were my own.
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.
Matthew had been accumulating secrets ... My life might be too brief to hear them all, never mind understand them.
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.
Could I have some water?" "I'll get it." Marcus hopped up from his stool. "There's some in the specimen fridge.
All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.
Secrets are unreliable allies. they allow us to believe we are safr, yet all the while they are destroying us.
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.
Witches have their share of nasty legends to contend with, I said, thinking of the witch-hunts and the executions that followed.
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.
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.
I would rather have had this moment with you - just this one night - than centuries with someone else ...
She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.
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.
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.
Cheap wine is defined by its price, and it depends on personal spending limits. So for me, any wine under $10 is cheap.
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.
The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.
The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.
Children needed love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them.
It's doubtful we're the first creatures to love those we should not, and we surely won't be the last.
Be careful, daughter ... You are a creature of the crossroads, neither here nor there. 'Tis a dangerous place to be.
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?
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,
Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop.