Joanne Harris quotes - page 2

Joanne Harris is a British author best known for her novel "Chocolat," which was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film. Her works often blend elements of magic, folklore, and contemporary life, captivating readers around the world. She continues to write award-winning novels exploring themes of identity, family, and transformation. Here are 80 of her quotes:

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

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The wind always brings us back to the same wall.

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

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I carried recipes in my head like maps.

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

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

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

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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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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!

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

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A thing named is a thing tamed.

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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.

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The process of giving is without limits.

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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.

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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.

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I'd rather be a freak than a clone.

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

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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.

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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 demon, if you prefer the term; although to be honest, the difference between god and a demon is really only a matter of perspective.

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

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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.

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