Quotes from Deborah Harkness

We would all be incredibly boring to a vampire who is 400, 500 years old.

I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.

I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.

I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons and things that go bump in the night.

I became a teacher because I wanted to make a difference in people's lives.

As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.

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

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.