The strongest distinguishing characteristic of humans is their power of denial. I have strength and long life, you have supernatural abilities, daemons have awe-inspiring creativity. Humans can convince themselves up is down and black is white. It’s their special gift.

— Deborah Harkness

Deborah Harkness Quotes

What is blood, if not fire and water?

— Deborah Harkness

Don’t tell me you’re the kind of academics who can’t tell the difference between their life and their job.

— Deborah Harkness

Matthew might make Jack feel safe the way a father should, but it was Diana who made him feel loved.

— Deborah Harkness

Remembering what his daemon friend Bruno had written in the sixteenth century, I quoted it again. “‘Desire urges me on, as fear bridles me.’ Doesn’t that explain everything that happens in the world?

— Deborah Harkness

And so I discovered that the practice of magic was not unlike the practice of history. The trick to both wasn’t finding the correct answers but formulating better questions.

— Deborah Harkness

It begins with absence and desire, it begins with blood and fear,’” I whispered. “‘It began with a discovery of witches,’” time responded, in a primeval echo that set alight the blue and amber threads that flickered against the room’s stone walls.

— Deborah Harkness

Being in charge was better than letting random events take place.

— Deborah Harkness

After all my searching, I discover that I am who I always was: Matthew de Clermont. Husband. Father. Vampire. And I am here for only one reason: To make a difference.

— Deborah Harkness

For storms will rage and oceans roar When Gabriel stands on sea and shore. And as he blows his wondrous horn, Old worlds die, and new be born.

— Deborah Harkness

Living in the sixteenth century, in households rather than simply in houses, I had grown accustomed to being surrounded by other people. My fear of being discovered had receded, and in its place had grown a wish to belong.

— Deborah Harkness

The dark of the moon is a time for new beginnings.

— Deborah Harkness

Who knows? But don’t worry. It’s happened to everybody. You drive to work and don’t remember how you got there. Or the whole afternoon passes and you don’t have a clue what you did. Whenever something like that happens, you can bet there’s a timewalker nearby,” explained Sarah.

— Deborah Harkness

We have several, Father Hubbard. The first is that you have your hands on something that belongs to me. If you don’t remove them, I’ll tear this den to pieces before sunrise. What happens afterward will make every creature in the city – daemon, human, wearh, and witch – think the end of days is upon us.’ Matthew’s voice vibrated with fury.

— Deborah Harkness

Racial identity has no biological basis – at least none accepted by most scientists.

— Deborah Harkness

Every weaving is as unique as the weaver who makes it. The goddess does not want us to imitate some ideal of perfection, but to be our true selves.

— Deborah Harkness

But only a weaver who stands between worlds can make the tenth knot,” she replied.

— Deborah Harkness

Creation and destruction are the simplest magics, and the most powerful, just as the simplest knot is the most difficult to make.

— Deborah Harkness

Love,” she whispered. “A grown-up to take responsibility for them. A soft place to land.

— Deborah Harkness

Witches don’t have centuries to fall in love. We do it quickly.

— Deborah Harkness

You were strong enough to withstand the injury – you should have no problem with the cure.

— Deborah Harkness
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