“As far as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world. — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature. — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I took a course on 'Magic, Alchemy, and Astrology' at Mount Holyoke, and it was a whole new awakening for me, a… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I was a terrible science student, and for a long time, I thought I just didn't understand science. It turned out that… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
We live in a world where we think the mysterious is retreating farther and farther from our lives and eventually we will… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I saw the logic that they used, and the death of a thousand cuts as experimental scientists slowly chipped away at the… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
The occult sciences were simply ancient technologies for making the occult or unseen manifest in the world - whether that was the… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
After 20 years of writing academic prose and lectures, it seems very familiar and straightforward to me. Writing a novel for the first time,… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
“As far as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
“Some swore he was a maid in man's attire, For in his looks were all that men desire, A pleasant smiling cheeke, a speaking… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
I took a course on 'Magic, Alchemy, and Astrology' at Mount Holyoke, and it was a whole new awakening for me, a way of… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
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… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
What if 16th century people were right, and the supernatural and natural coexisted? How would that play out? — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
I think you can learn a lot from primary sources. 'The Penguin Book of Witches,' which is edited by novelist Katherine Howe, is a… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
“History only became more challenging when it became less neat. Every time I pick up a book or document from the past, I'm in… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
We live in a world where we think the mysterious is retreating farther and farther from our lives and eventually we will know all… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
“Give me knowledge of my end and the measure of my days, so I may know my frailty. My lifetime is no longer than… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
