Deborah Harkness Quotes

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• 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…
• Remember the past - and await the future.
• Sorry, we've got ghosts.
• 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…
• Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak…
• English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.
• 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.
• Are you smelling me?” After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. “Don't…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.
• there’s nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing.
• It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however,
• Just because something seems impossible doesn’t make it untrue,
• the first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other.
• 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.
• 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…

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