Joanne Harris Quotes

“Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.”

“Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.”

“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.”

“Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.”

“The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.”

“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!”

“Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time,… some lies can be true,… broken faith may be restored.”

“I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”

“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.”

“She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.”

“I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.”

“I'd rather be a freak than a clone.”

“Love not often, but forever.”

“Places have their own characters…. But the people begin to look the same.”

“A thing named is a thing tamed.”

“Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.”

“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.”

“The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.”

“I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”

“The process of giving is without limits.”

“I speak as I must and cannot be silent.”

“I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines”

“I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.”

“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”

“A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.”

“To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think… This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.”

“The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy…. The magic of everyday things.”

“A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the rhyme”

“Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.”

“Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.”

“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.”

“I liked her better for showing a little spirit.”

“A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.”

“Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.”

“A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.”

“The wind always brings us back to the same wall”

“Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible.”

“Loki, that's me. Loki, the Light-Bringer, the misunderstood, the elusive, the handsome and modest hero of this particular tissue of lies.”

“We 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.”

“I carried recipes in my head like maps.”

“They tell you revenge isn't worth it. I say there's nothing finer.”

“Was it my fault that I got out of hand?
--Loki”

“Witches don’t just quit”