Quotes by Deborah Harkness

My ideas about vampires may be romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.

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)

and fear was the strongest force on earth.

Dont consider painful whats good for you.

I trust my wifes judgement... Thats what Philippe says about Granny, just before all hell breaks loose.

A ma vie de coer entier.Mon debut et ma fin. Se souvenir du passe, et quil ya un avenir. My whole heart for my whole life.With an alpha and an omega: my beginning and my end.Remember the past, and that there is a future.

If you truly love someone, you will cherish what they despise most about themselves - Fernando Conclaves

All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

Matthew 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 impulses. Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in action. Witchcraft was different- that took spells and rituals. But magic? A wish, a need, a hunger too strong to be denied- these could turn into deeds when they cross a witch’s mind.

Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop.

Giving a woman your whole life is meaningless without giving her your whole heart as well.

Impossible, Matthew said.Impossible nest pas français, Ysabeau said, her tone tart as vinegar. And it certainly was not a word in your fathers vocabulary.

I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the Harry Potter generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope A Discovery of Witches will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.

My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, the more fun I had imagining what youd serve a vampire for dinner.

“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)”

“My ideas about vampires may be romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.”