Deborah HarknessYou do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it. ✨ Deborah Harkness (2014). All Souls Trilogy, p.168, Penguin371Philosophy
Deborah HarknessAnd happiness is always louder than sadness. ✨ Deborah Harkness (2014). All Souls Trilogy, p.403, Penguin371Sadness
Deborah HarknessMy ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul. ✨ Deborah Harkness (2014). All Souls Trilogy, p.244, Penguin362Thought
Deborah HarknessJust because something seems impossible doesn't make it untrue. ✨ Deborah Harkness (2014). All Souls Trilogy, p.159, Penguin342Truth
Deborah HarknessGallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel. ✨ Deborah Harkness (2014). All Souls Trilogy, p.849, Penguin291Sadness
Deborah HarknessAll that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.379Love
Deborah HarknessAs 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.379Thought
Deborah HarknessSomewhere in the center of my soul, a rusty chain began to unwind. It freed itself, link by link, from where it had rested, unobserved, waiting for him. My hands, which had been b… ▶335Truth
Deborah HarknessHer bark is worse than her bite. ✨ Deborah Harkness (2014). All Souls Trilogy, p.197, Penguin358Life
Deborah Harknessthe first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other. ✨ Deborah Harkness (2014). All Souls Trilogy, p.408, Penguin358Politics
Deborah Harknessthere’s nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing. ✨ Deborah Harkness (2011). A Discovery of Witches: A Novel, p.84, Penguin314HumanityPoliticsReading
Deborah HarknessThe most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can… ▶347DeathLifeTruth
Deborah HarknessYou 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. ✨ Deborah Harkness (2011). A Discovery of… ▶303Reading
Deborah HarknessSir. My lord. Master Roydon. The young man blurted out most available titles except for Your Majesty and Prince of Darkness. These were implied nonetheless. ✨ Deborah Harkne… ▶271Hope
Deborah HarknessPamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making k… ▶337Truth
Deborah HarknessDesire urges me on as fear bridles me Bruno. ✨ Deborah Harkness (2014). All Souls Trilogy, p.205, Penguin294Love
Deborah HarknessNi muer ni viu ni no guaris, Ni mal no·m sent e si l’ai gran, Quar de s’amor no suy devis, Ni no sai si ja n’aurai ni quan, Qu’en lieys es tota le mercés Que·m pot sorzer o decaze… ▶349DeathLifeLove
Deborah HarknessMatthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires weren’t the only creatures who had to manage such strong… ▶3510Thought
Deborah HarknessIt begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches. ✨ Deborah Harkness (2012). Shadow of Night: A Novel, p.337, Penguin<… ▶339Reading
Deborah HarknessOccasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile...' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.241Hope
Deborah HarknessI want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy. ✨ Deborah Harkness (2011). A Discovery of Witches: A Novel, p.83, Penguin274HumanityLifeReading
Deborah HarknessSorry, we've got ghosts. ✨ Deborah Harkness (2014). All Souls Trilogy, p.390, Penguin329Love
Deborah HarknessIt is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone. ✨ Deborah Harkness (2014). All Souls Trilogy, p.257, Penguin319Love
Deborah HarknessBe still,” he said, voice harsh. “I might not be able to control myself if you step away. ✨ Deborah Harkness (2014). All Souls Trilogy, p.156, Penguin264Politics
Deborah HarknessIt was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however. ✨ Deborah Harkness (2014). All Souls Trilogy, p.158, Pengui… ▶243Truth
Deborah HarknessScholars do one of two things when they discover information that doesn't fit what they already know. Either they sweep it aside so it doesn't bring their cherished theories into … ▶246Reading
Deborah HarknessHis full name is Matthew Gabriel Philippe Bertrand Sebastien de Clermont. He was also a very good Sebastien, and a passable Gabriel. He hates Bertrand and will not answer to Phili… ▶224Reflection
Deborah HarknessShe was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment. ✨ Deborah Harkness (2014). All Souls Trilogy, p.60,… ▶2810Reading
Deborah HarknessIn this room we understand why this war might be fought...it's about our common belief that no one has the right to tell two creatures that they cannot love each other--no matter … ▶257Love
Deborah HarknessBe yourself-- Matthew Clairmont. Complete with your sharp vampire teeth and your scary mother, your test tubes full of blood and your DNA, your infuriating bossiness and your madd… ▶246Reading
