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
spiritual study witch
The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.
kissing intimate palms
Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.
stars sunset home
That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of me, like a dark star guiding me home.
firsts return tudors
My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.
voice control-myself able
Be still,” he said, voice harsh. “I might not be able to control myself if you step away.
writing years people
I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.
past remember remembering-the-past
Remember the past - and await the future.
together fundamentals provocative
Pamela 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 knowledge was during a period of fundamental epistemological change. This is a finely crafted and conceptualized collection.
war two might
In 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 what their species.
powerful cutting people
I saw the logic that they used, and the death of a thousand cuts as experimental scientists slowly chipped away at the belief that the world was an inexplicably powerful, magical place. Ultimately they failed, though. The magic never really went away. It waited, quietly, for people to return to it when they found the science wanting.
smell i-can knows
I know,I can smell it, too,
war two impulse
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however,
two years desire
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.
war requirements firsts
the first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other.