Deborah Harkness

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

— Deborah Harkness

“If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire…

— Deborah Harkness

“It showed a tiny baby girl floating in a clear glass vessel. The baby held a silver rose in one hand, a…

— Deborah Harkness

I'm definitely a seat-of-the-pants writer.

— Deborah Harkness

Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

— Deborah Harkness

I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the…

— Deborah Harkness

As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop…

— Deborah Harkness

There is a lot of talk in the academy about the death of the humanities. Based on my readers' response and their…

— Deborah Harkness

You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it…

— Deborah Harkness

“Mommy's got a firecracker inside her," was the way my father explained it with his wide indulgent grin, but firecrackers, I learned,…

— Deborah Harkness

“The daemon glanced at his watch. The day was young, but he already knew why his friend was in Scotland. Matthew Clairmont…

— Deborah Harkness

Sir. My lord. Master Roydon." The young man blurted out most available titles except for "Your Majesty" and "Prince of Darkness." These…

— Deborah Harkness

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there…

— Deborah Harkness

“Witches see the truth plainly—even if their husbands are full of nonsense.”

— Deborah Harkness

Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.

— Deborah Harkness

I saw the logic that they used, and the death of a thousand cuts as experimental scientists slowly chipped away at the…

— Deborah Harkness

I'm entranced by Amanda Lovelace's work. She wrote two wonderful books, 'The Princess Saves Herself in This One' and 'The Witch Doesn't…

— Deborah Harkness

I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampire and witch moment, courtesy…

— Deborah Harkness

People think about history as all grand gestures or significant moments, but the most valuable lesson we can learn is the enduring…

— Deborah Harkness

“...empathy is the most important power there is. Without it, we are doomed. With it, we can truly change the world. (interview…

— Deborah Harkness

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

— Deborah Harkness

I re-read the books I assign to my students. Each time I do, I learn something new.

— Deborah Harkness

I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s:…

— Deborah Harkness

I am so thrilled to carve out a few minutes to write that I grab it whenever I can.

— Deborah Harkness

I found a 'lost' manuscript called the Book of Soyga that had once belonged to Queen Elizabeth I's court astrologer, John Dee,…

— Deborah Harkness