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“Kümmere dich um deine eignen Wünsche und Bedürfnisse." S. 222”
― Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle

“A bad decision wrapped in a good decision package”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Christmas Tree Farm

“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.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“the wolf who wins is the wolf you feed. The evil wolf feeds on anger, guilt, sorrow, lies, and regret. The good wolf needs a diet of love and honesty, spiced up with big spoonfuls of compassion and faith. So if you want the good wolf to win, you’re going to have to starve the other one.”
― Deborah Harkness, The Book of Life

“You tell me that magic is just desire made real. Maybe spells are nothing more than words that you believe with all your heart,”
― Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night

“Whoever can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“Magic is desire made real.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“All you have to do is be a good listener. Nobody really wants to keep secrets, not even the dead. People leave clues everywhere, and if you pay attention, you can piece them together.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“We don’t lock up books in this house,” Philippe said, “only food, ale, and wine. Reading Herodotus or Aquinas seldom leads to bad behavior.”
― Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night

“Zorn und Angst leben im Schatten und du musst dich ihnen jeden Tag stellen." S. 151 The Black Bird Oracle”
― Deborah Harkness

“And happiness is always louder than sadness.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“As far as I can tell, there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning, year after year. One is fear. The other is desire.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then. You just have to carry them with you.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“One had followed the rules, and one had not. But the problem with rules... was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time they were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure what side of the line you stood on.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“All her life, she had learned that passion, like fire, was a dangerous thing. It so easily went out of control. It scaled walls and jumped over trenches. Sparks leapt like fleas and spread as rapidly; a breeze could carry embers for miles. Better to control that spark and pass it carefully from one generation to the next, like an Olympic torch. Or, perhaps, to tend it carefully like an eternal flame: a reminder of light and goodness that would never - could never - set anything ablaze. Carefully controlled. Domesticated. Happy in captivity. The key, she thought, was to avoid conflagration.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“ANGER IS FEAR’S BODYGUARD,”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“It bothers you, doesn’t it?” Mia said suddenly. “I think you can’t imagine. Why anyone would choose a different life from the one you’ve got. Why anyone might want something other than a big house with a big lawn, a fancy car, a job in an office. Why anyone would choose anything different than what you’d choose.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“You’ll always be sad about this,” Mia said softly. “But it doesn’t mean you made the wrong choice. It’s just something that you have to carry.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“To those out on their own paths, setting little fires”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“She smelled of home...as if home had never been a place, but had always been this little person whom she'd carried alongside her.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“But the problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time there were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“Du musst ihr [der Dunkelheit] die Stirn bieten ... Schau ihr ins Auge, ohne mit der Wimper zu zucken. Die Dunkelheit ist von einer verschlagenen Tücke und du darfst nicht zulassen, dass sie deine Schutzvorrichtungen passiert."

"Deie geheimen Wünsche sind deine Wahren Waffen”
― Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle

“She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“As far as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“Sehnsucht spornt mich an, Furcht bremst mich ... Was für ein Weg, gerade oder krumm, wird mir Frieden geben und mich erlösen?" S 414 f”
― Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle

“Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“Sorry, we've got ghosts.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“My ideas about vampires may be romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“I see you, even when you hide from the rest of the world. I hear you, even when you're silent.”
― Deborah Harkness, The Book of Life