Absence Quote by Deborah Harkness

Everything that begins, begins with blood.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the…

— Deborah Harkness

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

— Jane Austen

Witches try to 'connect' with the world around them. Witchcraft, they say, is about the tactile, intuitive understanding of the turn of the seasons,…

— Tanya Luhrmann

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always…

— Clive Barker

Everything begins and ends with the writing.

— Christina Pickles

“In which witches will be witches”

— Neal Stephenson

It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of…

— Hannah Arendt

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.

— Sam Ewing

A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning to live…

— Leah Cypess

I can't explain witchcraft.

— Adam Rippon