Deborah Harkness : (3)

" Falling in love is really relatively easy compared to staying in love and building a family that lasts. " - Deborah Harkness

" I’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

" A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show – in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever – is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery. " - Deborah Harkness