Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
Joanne HarrisYou priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.
Joanne HarrisIf you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.
Joanne HarrisWe came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats; rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance.
Joanne Harris