Deborah Harkness Quotes

“It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.”

“Magic is desire made real.”

“If 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.”

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

“Even at a safe distance, this manuscript was challenging me- threatening the walls I’d erected to separate my career as a scholar from my birthright as the last of the Bishop witches.”