Deborah Harkness - Vampires Quotes

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These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy, and electricity. If it went bang, involved blood, or promised to unlock the secrets of the universe, there was sure to be a vampire around.

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Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires weren't the only creatures who had to manage such strong impulses. Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in action. Witchcraft was different- that took spells and rituals. But magic? A wish, a need, a hunger too strong to be denied- these could turn into deeds when they cross a witch's mind.

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Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.

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You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.

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I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.

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There's nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing.

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Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak of ruthlessness as wide as the Mississippi

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English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.

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