She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.
Deborah HarknessSe Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.
Deborah HarknessI 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 HarknessIf 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 HarknessYou 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 HarknessI'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