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
mean vampire phrases
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.
kissing intimate palms
Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.
past remember remembering-the-past
Remember the past - and await the future.
running hands long
Somewhere 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 balled up and pressed against his chest, unfurled with it. The chain continued to drop, to an unfathomable depth where there was nothing but darkness and Matthew. At last it snapped to its full length, anchoring me to a vampire. Despite the manuscript, despite the fact that my hands contained enough voltage to run a microwave, and despite the photograph, as long as I was connected to him, I was safe.
beautiful art eye
The 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 no longer wonder, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed (Albert Einstein)
mother being-yourself dna
Be 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 maddening sense of smell.
bark bites
Her bark is worse than her bite.
views magic important
I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.
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.
memories way world
Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.
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.
children responsibility land
All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.
colin films fix imaging wonderful
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.
empathize helping highlights lived love people students time
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.