A Discovery Of Witches Quotes

#1. I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel.

Deborah Harkness

#2. It begins with absence and desire.
It begins with blood and fear.
It begins with a discovery of witches.

Deborah Harkness

#3. I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.

Deborah Harkness

#4. Hopefully New Zealand let me stay, and they don't kick me out and ban me. And I hope I don't get killed by a kangaroo, 'cuz I heard that happens out there.

Vince Staples

#5. Her concept of paradise was something more immediate: a book and a blanket beneath a tree, where she might read in peace.

Janet Evanovich

#6. 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

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

Deborah Harkness

#8. Boys. I'd turn gay if they weren't so sexy.

Rachel Caine

#9. Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

Judith Viorst

#10. The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

Bob Dylan

#11. I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.

Yvonne De Carlo

#12. We may meet again; the world is not after all so very large a place." He

Naomi Novik

#13. For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

Benjamin Franklin

#14. One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.

Saul Bellow

#15. For storms will rage and oceans roar,
When Gabriel stands on sea and shore,
And as he blows his wondrous horn,
Old worlds die and new be born.

Deborah Harkness

#16. The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

Marc Forster

#17. Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. Vampires aren't the only ones who can hunt.

Diana Bishop

#19. The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

Samora Machel