Deborah Harkness Quotes
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the first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other.
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I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.
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She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.
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All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.
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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.
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there’s nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing.
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English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.
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It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.
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Remember the past - and await the future.
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I know,I can smell it, too.
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The king just sits there, moving one square at a time. The queen can move so freely. I suppose I’d rather lose the game than forfeit her freedom.
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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.
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Sir. My lord. Master Roydon." The young man blurted out most available titles except for "Your Majesty" and "Prince of Darkness." These were implied nonetheless.
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My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.
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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.
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Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.
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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.
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Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.
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Ni 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 decazer.” “Not dying nor living nor healing, there is no pain in my sickness, for I am not kept from her love. I don’t know if I will ever have it, for all the mercy that makes me flourish or decay is in her power.
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Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.
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Just because something seems impossible doesn't make it untrue.
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Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.
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His 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 Philippe.
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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)
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