Every time I pick up a book or a document from the past, I'm in a battle with people who lived hundreds of years ago. They have their secrets and obsessions - all the things they won't or can't reveal. It's my job to discover and explain them.
- from A Discovery of Witches book by Deborah Harkness
Whiskey made it possible to close your eyes at night without hating yourself for everything you'd been ordered to do that day.
- from A Discovery of Witches book by Deborah Harkness
I can tell you as a scientist, that there's no such thing as ‘normal.' ‘Normal' is a bedtime story - a fable - that humans tell themselves to feel better when faced with overwhelming evidence that most of what's happening around them is not ‘normal' at all.
- from A Discovery of Witches book by Deborah Harkness
This is why you have to stop keeping secrets. They're going to destroy you from the inside.
- from A Discovery of Witches book by Deborah Harkness
Explanations, like medicines, go down easier when accompanied by liquid refreshment.
- from A Discovery of Witches book by Deborah Harkness