Deborah Harkness
Deborah Harkness
Deborah Harknessis an American scholar, novelist and wine enthusiast, best known as a historian and the author of the "All Souls" Trilogy which consists of the The New York Times best selling novel A Discovery of Witches and its sequels Shadow of Night and The Book of Life...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
books decided history horseback inn journeys love passages soup spice stop wood
As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop at every inn had to go out the window. I decided the history in the books should be like spice in a soup - a little went a long way. Like cilantro.
provides room science unlimited
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.
good magic material since work
I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
children responsibility land
All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.
blood best-effort vision
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.
mean opportunity devil
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.
past remember souvenirs
Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.
hurt love-is blessing
It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.
memories way world
Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.
sweet butterfly wings
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.
blood secret vampire
These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy, and electricity. If it went bang, involved blood, or promised to unlock the secrets of the universe, there was sure to be a vampire around.
focus lenses cameras
She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.
two focus trying
Scholars 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 question or they focus on it with laserlike intensity and try to get to the bottom of the mystery.
impossible untrue seems
Just because something seems impossible doesn’t make it untrue,