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A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1) QUOTES

A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1) QUOTES

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) "

― Deborah Harkness , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

3 " 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. "

― Deborah Harkness , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

4 " All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land. "

― Deborah Harkness , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

5 " 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. "

― Deborah Harkness , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

6 " I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy. "

― Deborah Harkness , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

7 " 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. "

― Deborah Harkness , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

8 " 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 , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

9 " That's wonderful news" Clairmont said. "Can you get this lady some tea when you have a chance? She's threatened to kill for it."
"Won't be necessary, dearie," Mary told me with a smile. "We serve tea without bloodshed. "

― Deborah Harkness , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

10 " En quelques jours, ils avaient noué une alliance malsaine avec un jeune et élégant vampire français du Garden District aux cheveux blonds improbables, et totalement dénué de scrupules. "

― Deborah Harkness , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

11 " « Voglio ciò che non dovrei volere e desidero qualcuno che non potrò mai avere. » "

― Debora Harknesa, , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

12 " Tú hueles a savia de sauce. Y manzanilla aplastada - Olfateó otra vez y mostró una sonrisa leve y triste - Hay también madreselvas y hojas de roble caídas - dijo en voz baja, suspirando -, junto con avellano en flor y los primeros narcisos de la primavera. Y cosas antiguas..., malva, incienso, milenrama. Los olores que creía haber olvidado. "

― Deborah Harkness , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

13 " Baldwin Montclair, as he was known in the financial markets, strode down the hall of the ground floor. His copper-colored hair gleamed in the electric light, and his muscles twitched with the quick reflexes of a born athlete. Trained to wield a sword from childhood, he had been imposing before becoming a vampire, and after his rebirth few dared to cross him. "

― Deborah Harkness , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

14 " The middle son in Philippe de Clermont’s brood of three male children, Baldwin had been made a vampire in Roman times and had been Philippe’s favorite. They were cut from the same cloth – fond of war, women, and wine, in that order. Despite these amiable characteristics, those who faced him in combat seldom lived to recount the experience. "

― Deborah Harkness , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

15 " To Baldwin fell the battle strategies, his sharp mind quick to analyze every plan for flaws and weaknesses. "

― Deborah Harkness , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

16 " Baldwin strode in front, and people hastily got out of our way. "

― Deborah Harkness , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

17 " When they were still twenty feet off the ground, Matthew jumped out and set off at a dead run toward the castle’s gate. Baldwin sighed and jumped after him, first directing the pilot not to move until they were both back on board. "

― Deborah Harkness , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

18 " Baldwin took charge of a table large enough to hold a board meeting, where he spread out papers, logged on to two different computers, and began talking incessantly on the phone. "

― Deborah Harkness , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

19 " What a complicated, delicate business it was going to be to love him. We were the stuff of fairy tales-- vampires, witches, knights in shining armour. But there was a troubling reality to face. I had been threatened, and creatures watched me in the Bodleian in hopes I'd recall a book that everyone wanted but no one understood. Mathew's laboratory had been targeted. And our relationship was destabilizing the fragile détente that had long existed among daemons, humans, vampires, and witches. "

― Deborah Harkness , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

20 " Celui qui ne peut plus s'émerveiller ne vaut pas mieux qu'un mort. "

― Deborah Harkness , A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)