Joanne Harris quotes - page 2

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife. (Joanne Harris)
A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after. View quote
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The wind always brings us back to the same wall. View quote
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The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. View quote
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I carried recipes in my head like maps. View quote
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Was it my fault that I got out of hand? --Loki. View quote
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Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul. View quote
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Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know. View quote
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Children are knives, my mother once said. They don't mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don't we, we clasp them until the blood flows. View quote
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Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh! View quote
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Love not often, but forever. (Joanne Harris)
Places have their own characters.... But the people begin to look the same. View quote
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A thing named is a thing tamed. View quote
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Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are. View quote
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The process of giving is without limits. View quote
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The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy.... The magic of everyday things. View quote
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You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life. View quote
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I'd rather be a freak than a clone. View quote
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They tell you revenge isn't worth it. I say there's nothing finer. View quote
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One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones. View quote
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A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the rhyme. (Joanne Harris)
Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there. View quote
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A demon, if you prefer the term; although to be honest, the difference between god and a demon is really only a matter of perspective. View quote
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Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible. View quote
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Loki, that's me. Loki, the Light-Bringer, the misunderstood, the elusive, the handsome and modest hero of this particular tissue of lies. View quote
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