His full name is Matthew Gabriel Philippe Bertrand Sebastien de Clermont. He was also a very good Sebastien, and a passable Gabriel. He hates Bertrand and will not answer to Philippe. Deborah Harkness More Quotes by Deborah Harkness More Quotes From Deborah Harkness It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches. Deborah Harkness desire discovery blood My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul. Deborah Harkness vampire attitude ideas Ni muer ni viu ni no guaris, Ni mal no·m sent e si l’ai gran, Quar de s’amor no suy devis, Ni no sai si ja n’aurai ni quan, Qu’en lieys es tota le mercés Que·m pot sorzer o decazer.” “Not dying nor living nor healing, there is no pain in my sickness, for I am not kept from her love. I don’t know if I will ever have it, for all the mercy that makes me flourish or decay is in her power. Deborah Harkness pain dying healing Her bark is worse than her bite. Deborah Harkness bark bites I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires. Deborah Harkness vampire sound mean I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy. Deborah Harkness simple want ordinary That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of me, like a dark star guiding me home. Deborah Harkness sunset stars home The king just sits there, moving one square at a time. The queen can move so freely. I suppose I’d rather lose the game than forfeit her freedom. Deborah Harkness queens kings moving Be still,” he said, voice harsh. “I might not be able to control myself if you step away. Deborah Harkness control-myself voice might English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are. Deborah Harkness witch vampire may Witches are the kind of more traditional, home and family, craft people - so they're the ones who are making things; crocheting shawls and things like that. But then they also have that slightly confident, dangerous, edge. I always see them as having very extreme hair, either amazingly beautiful straight hair or kind of wild. Deborah Harkness family home beautiful people There is a lot of talk in the academy about the death of the humanities. Based on my readers' response and their interest in history and literature and art, the death of the humanities has been grossly overstated. Deborah Harkness literature death history art A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery. Deborah Harkness reading believe negative world My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, the more fun I had imagining what you'd serve a vampire for dinner. Deborah Harkness cool you dinner fun Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting. Deborah Harkness magic science way world We live in a world where we think the mysterious is retreating farther and farther from our lives and eventually we will know all there is to know. I love the idea that somehow, there are still things that can be magical. Deborah Harkness live think love world 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 Burn in This One.' You can feel your heart opening because she says things that you thought only you felt. Deborah Harkness feel you work heart I found a 'lost' manuscript called the Book of Soyga that had once belonged to Queen Elizabeth I's court astrologer, John Dee, in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Everybody thought it was the missing key to Dee's interest in magic. Of course, it wasn't really lost. It was there, in the catalog. Deborah Harkness queen library magic book Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored. Deborah Harkness thought mystery bored time I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction. Deborah Harkness time love long people
