Joanne Harris

Author

1964-07-03

Quotes by Joanne Harris

• I'm only keeping in touch with you for the sake of the children. Way to look after our son, by the way. I let you have him for the weekend and before I know it he's chained underground, awaiting Last Times and stinking of mead.

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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.

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• A named thing is a tamed thing.

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

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• Your wolf is eating that man. I thought you should know.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing.

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• 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.

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• Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

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

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• I'm only keeping in touch with you for the sake of the children. Way to look after our son, by the way. I let you have him for the weekend and before I know it he's chained underground, awaiting Last Times and stinking of mead.

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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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Your wolf is eating that man. I thought you should know.

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• No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing.

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• A named thing is a tamed thing.

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