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Deborah Harkness Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“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, A Discovery of Witches: A Novel
Tagged: Secrets, Communication, Attention, Listening
“The strongest distinguishing characteristic of humans is their power of denial.”
— Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches: A Novel
Tagged: Human Nature, humanity, What Makes Us Human
“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, A Discovery of Witches: A Novel
Tagged: Blessings And Blades, Yin And Yang, Unrequited Love, Sad
“Desire urges me on, as fear bridles me. Doesn’t that explain everything that happens in the world?”
— Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches: A Novel
Tagged: Fear
“'Normal' is a bedtime story—a fable—that humans tell themselves to feel better when faced with overwhelming evidence that most of what’s happening around them is not ‘normal’ at all.”
— Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches: A Novel
Tagged: normal, normalcy, Reality
“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, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.”
— Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches: A Novel
Tagged: Dreams, Art, Science, Human Experience, Deep, Mystery
“Beware the witch with the blood of the lion and the wolf.”
— Meridiana, A Discovery of Witches, Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: Game, Queen
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