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We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.

Deborah Harkness

legs long book

there’s nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing.

Deborah Harkness

vampire magic powerful

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.

Deborah Harkness

impulse war two

Somewhere in the center of my soul, a rusty chain began to unwind. It freed itself, link by link, from where it had rested, unobserved, waiting for him. My hands, which had been balled up and pressed against his chest, unfurled with it. The chain continued to drop, to an unfathomable depth where there was nothing but darkness and Matthew. At last it snapped to its full length, anchoring me to a vampire. Despite the manuscript, despite the fact that my hands contained enough voltage to run a microwave, and despite the photograph, as long as I was connected to him, I was safe.

Deborah Harkness

running long hands

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

Deborah Harkness

tudors return firsts

I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.

Deborah Harkness

writing people years

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

Deborah Harkness

witch study spiritual

Sir. My lord. Master Roydon." The young man blurted out most available titles except for "Your Majesty" and "Prince of Darkness." These were implied nonetheless.

Deborah Harkness

titles darkness men

Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

Deborah Harkness

fleeting judgement opportunity

Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.

Deborah Harkness

pretzels vampire two

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.

Deborah Harkness

urges desire

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.

Deborah Harkness

four three two

Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making knowledge was during a period of fundamental epistemological change. This is a finely crafted and conceptualized collection.

Deborah Harkness

provocative fundamentals together

Remember the past - and await the future.

Deborah Harkness

remembering-the-past remember past

Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.

Deborah Harkness

palms intimate kissing

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

Deborah Harkness

carpet holes saws

Are you smelling me?” After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. “Don't tempt me,” he murmured.

Deborah Harkness

body yesterday giving

I saw the logic that they used, and the death of a thousand cuts as experimental scientists slowly chipped away at the belief that the world was an inexplicably powerful, magical place. Ultimately they failed, though. The magic never really went away. It waited, quietly, for people to return to it when they found the science wanting.

Deborah Harkness

cutting powerful people

And happiness is always louder than sadness.

Deborah Harkness

sadness

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

gabriel hate names

the first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other.