Top 250 Deborah Harkness Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.”

— Deborah Harkness

52. “Gallowglass extended his hand farther and hoped that the tea’s aroma would persuade her to indulge. “It’s Scottish Breakfast tea. One of your favorites.” “Get thee behind me, Satan,” Diana grumbled, taking the mug.”

— Deborah Harkness

53. “If you truly love someone, you will cherish what they despise most about themselves.”

— Deborah Harkness

54. “And then you weave a forspell that called forth a rowan tree simply to tame a firedrake. Had.”

— Deborah Harkness

55. “Let me love you forever.”

— Deborah Harkness

56. “Sometimes my pagan background was a serious professional liability.”

— Deborah Harkness

57. “Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop.”

— Deborah Harkness

58. “She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.”

— Deborah Harkness

59. “Desire urges me on, as fear bridles me.”

— Deborah Harkness

60. “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.”

— Deborah Harkness

61. “As I am the end, so my lover is the beginning. I encompass the whole work of creation, and all knowledge is hidden in me.”

— Deborah Harkness

62. “You have always been a child between, a witch apart. But there is no path forward that does not have him in it. Whichever way you go, you must choose him.”

— Deborah Harkness

63. “If you’re angry with me, say it. If I’ve done something you don’t like, tell me. If you want to end this marriage, have the courage to end it cleanly so that I might – might – be able to recover from it. Because if you keep looking at me as though you wish we weren’t married, you’re going to destroy me.”

— Deborah Harkness

64. “I have a weakness for smart men.”

— Deborah Harkness

65. “One should find wholeness in marriage, Gabriel, but it should not be a prison for either party,” said Rabbi Loew.”

— Deborah Harkness

66. “Now I have you. One day you will be gone, and my life will be over.”

— Deborah Harkness

67. “Within days they’d formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak of ruthlessness as wide as the Mississippi.”

— Deborah Harkness

68. “Even the darkest places need to be brought into the light of day, or else they’ll grow until they swallow a man whole.”

— Deborah Harkness

69. “Did you know that a witch’s blood makes music? Like a siren who sings to the sailor, asking him to steer his ship into the rocks, the call of your blood could be my undoing-and yours.”

— Deborah Harkness

70. “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

71. “Friends tell each other the truth, even when it’s difficult.”

— Deborah Harkness

72. “One year ago you walked into the Bodleian Library and straight into my heart. As soon as that wicked mouth of yours smiled, the moment your eyes lightened with recognition even though we’d never met before, I knew that my life would never be the same.”

— Deborah Harkness

73. “Three grown men and a woman, and guess who gets stuck with the dragon?”

— Deborah Harkness

74. “All you have to do is be a good listener. Nobody really wants to keep secrets, not even the dead. People leave clues everywhere, and if you pay attention, you can piece them together.”

— Deborah Harkness

75. “Whoever can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead.”

— Deborah Harkness

76. “Now I want nothing more than to grow old with you,” Matthew said.”

— Deborah Harkness

77. “Everybody thinks the library is just a building, but it isn’t.”

— Deborah Harkness

78. “This is why you have to stop keeping secrets, Matt. They’re going to destroy you from the inside.”

— Deborah Harkness

79. “I asked if you were hungry.” Why he continued to do so was a mystery – when was I not hungry?”

— Deborah Harkness

80. “In the world’s apparent chaos, there is still evidence of God’s plan.”

— Deborah Harkness

81. “The most terrifying monsters always look just like ordinary men.”

— Deborah Harkness

82. “From the depths of the water I cried out to you, and from the depths of the earth I will call to those who pass by me. Watch for me. See me. And if you find another who is like me, I will give him the morning star.”

— Deborah Harkness

83. “Fear.’ My mother had warned me of its power, but I had misunderstood, as children often do. I’d thought it was the fear of others that I needed to guard against, but it was my own terror. Because of that misunderstanding, I’d let the fear take root inside me until it clouded my thoughts and affected how I saw the world. Fear.”

— Deborah Harkness

84. “Adrenaline poisoning,’ one of my doctors had called these surges of anxiety that had troubled me since childhood. The doctors explained that, for reasons they could not understand, my body seemed to think it was in a constant state of danger. One of the specialists my aunt consulted explained earnestly that it was a biochemical leftover from hunter-gatherer days. I’d be all right so long as I rid my bloodstream of the adrenaline load.”

— Deborah Harkness

85. “He took my chin in his fingers. “You’re impossible. Stop worrying about what other women do. Be your own extraordinary self.” When I nodded, he kissed me before returning to his table.”

— Deborah Harkness

86. “Her bark is worse than her bite.”

— Deborah Harkness

87. “We face a dark future if children stop asking questions, Susanna,” Goody Alsop remarked.”

— Deborah Harkness

88. “Sorry, we’ve got ghosts.”

— Deborah Harkness

89. “I arched my back in an effort to increase the contact between us, and Matthew stilled. With my spine bowed, he was poised at the entrance to my womb. And in that brief, forever moment, father, mother, and child were as close as any three creatures could be.”

— Deborah Harkness

90. “Magic was nothing more than desire made real, after all.”

— Deborah Harkness

91. “I cannot shield you from the challenges you will face. You will know great loss and danger, but also great joy. You may doubt your instincts in the years to come, but your feet have been walking this path since the moment you were born.”

— Deborah Harkness

92. “You were right,” I blurted, needing to make my own confession before tackling the subject of Knox. “I’ve never kept the magic out of my life. I’ve been using it in my work, without realizing it. It’s in everything. I’ve been fooling myself for years.”

— Deborah Harkness

93. “Saying no takes courage – far more courage than saying yes.”

— Deborah Harkness

94. “I turned to leave, then whirled around and flung my arms around Philippe’s massive shoulders. How could such a man ever be broken? “What is it?” Philippe murmured, taken aback. “You will not be alone either, Philippe de Clermont,” I whispered fiercely. “I’ll find a way to be with you in the darkness, I promise. And when you think the whole world has abandoned you, I’ll be there, holding your hand.” “How could it be otherwise,” Philippe said gently, “when you are in my heart?”

— Deborah Harkness

95. “Some promises matter more than others.”

— Deborah Harkness

96. “You’re taking this very well, Gallowglass,” Diana said gratefully. “Matthew would be trying to talk me out of it.” “That’s what you get for falling in love with the wrong man,” he said under his breath, slipping the phone back into his pocket.”

— Deborah Harkness

97. “It is I who mediates the elements, bringing each into agreement... I make what is moist dry again, and what is dry I make moist. I make what is hard soft again, and harden that which is soft. As I am the end, so my lover is the beginning. I encompass the whole work of creation, and all knowledge is hidden in me... Who will dare to separate me from my love? No one, for our love is as strong as death.”

— Deborah Harkness

98. “Everyone who has ever been in pain knows that morphine and magic are the same.”

— Deborah Harkness

99. “Hearts cannot be broken, Diana. And only love makes us truly immortal.”

— Deborah Harkness

100. “You have found a woman who is worthy of you, with courage and hope to spare, Matthaios.’ ‘I know,’ Matthew said, taking my hand. ‘Know this, too: you are equally worthy of her. Stop regretting your life. Start living it.”

— Deborah Harkness