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1 " My ideas about vampires may be romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul. "
― Deborah Harkness , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
2 " 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 science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed (Albert Einstein) "
3 " Don't consider painful what's good for you. "
― Deborah Harkness , Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)
4 " I trust my wife's judgement... That's what Philippe says about Granny, just before all hell breaks loose. "
5 " A ma vie de coer entier.Mon debut et ma fin. Se souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir. My whole heart for my whole life.With an alpha and an omega: my beginning and my end.Remember the past, and that there is a future. "
6 " ...empathy is the most important power there is. Without it, we are doomed. With it, we can truly change the world.(interview from USC) "
― Deborah Harkness
7 " All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land. "
8 " 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 creatures who had to manage such strong impulses. Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in action. Witchcraft was different- that took spells and rituals. But magic? A wish, a need, a hunger too strong to be denied- these could turn into deeds when they cross a witch’s mind. "
9 " Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop. "
10 " Giving a woman your whole life is meaningless without giving her your whole heart as well. "
11 " I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy. "
12 " I had been in 1590 for less than twenty-four hours, but I was already heartily sick of Christopher Marlowe. "
13 " It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. —PHILIPPE DE CLERMONT, OFTEN ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES DARWIN "
― Deborah Harkness , The Book of Life (All Souls, #3)
14 " Got any more of that wine, Casanova?""I'm French, Sarah, not Italian. And I'm a vampire. I always have wine," Matthew said with a wicked smile. "There's no danger of running out. "
15 " Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world. "
16 " Think and stay alive. - Phillipe de Clermont "
17 " He did. I swear it. Baldwin ordered him to leave or face the same fate as the Impaler. You should have seen Baldwin’s face. The devil himself wouldn’t have disobeyed your brother. "
18 " Der einzige wirksame Zaun gegen die Welt und ihre Gefahren ist das Wissen darüber. "
― Deborah Harkness , Time's Convert (All Souls)
19 " 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. "
20 " With knot of one, the spell's begun.With knot of two, the spell be true.With knot of three, the spell is free.With knot of four, the power is stored.With knot of five, the spell with thrive.With knot of six, this spell I fix. "
