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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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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.
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This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.
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If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.
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Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.
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Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
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The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
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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.
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As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.
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I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.
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Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness. (Page 194.)
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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.
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But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair. I never did, snapped Loki crossly. Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?
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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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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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Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark. Nat Parson's a gobshite. Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.
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I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
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Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.
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A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.
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I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.
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I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.
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