I love being outdoors and being with animals, and when you're on a horse, you have to leave your anxieties and worries behind in the barn. It's very therapeutic. Deborah Harkness More Quotes by Deborah Harkness More Quotes From Deborah Harkness You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood. Deborah Harkness best-effort vision blood Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future. Deborah Harkness souvenirs remember past Scholars do one of two things when they discover information that doesn't fit what they already know. Either they sweep it aside so it doesn't bring their cherished theories into question or they focus on it with laserlike intensity and try to get to the bottom of the mystery. Deborah Harkness focus trying two Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity. Deborah Harkness devil opportunity mean All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land. Deborah Harkness land responsibility children She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment. Deborah Harkness lenses cameras focus These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy, and electricity. If it went bang, involved blood, or promised to unlock the secrets of the universe, there was sure to be a vampire around. Deborah Harkness vampire secret blood It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone. Deborah Harkness hurt blessing love-is Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world. Deborah Harkness memories way world Just because something seems impossible doesn't make it untrue. Deborah Harkness untrue seems impossible If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it. Deborah Harkness butterfly fire sweet I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important. Deborah Harkness magic important views I know,I can smell it, too. Deborah Harkness smell i-can knows As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire. Deborah Harkness desire two years In this room we understand why this war might be fought...it's about our common belief that no one has the right to tell two creatures that they cannot love each other--no matter what their species. Deborah Harkness might war two Sorry, we've got ghosts. Deborah Harkness ghost sorry the first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other. Deborah Harkness allies requirements war 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 risk strong blood 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 eye beautiful art Be yourself-- Matthew Clairmont. Complete with your sharp vampire teeth and your scary mother, your test tubes full of blood and your DNA, your infuriating bossiness and your maddening sense of smell. Deborah Harkness being-yourself smell mother
