01UndatedOur lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.Joanne Harris / quote ↗
02UndatedBut stories are worlds. New worlds for us to visit. In stories, we live forever.Joanne Harris / quote ↗
03UndatedI let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.Joanne Harris / quote ↗
04UndatedIt's never too late to come home," he said, and pulled me gently, insistently toward him."All you have to do...is stop moving away.Joanne Harris / quote ↗
05UndatedIf you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.Joanne Harris / quote ↗
06UndatedI dreamt that I was old. And you – you were beside me.Forever young – in your hand, a cup of stars.Joanne Harris / quote ↗
08UndatedI don’t pretend to know much about love, but that’s how great love comes to an end, not in the flames of passion, but in the silence of regret.Joanne Harris / quote ↗
09UndatedBut 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?Joanne Harris / quote ↗
10UndatedYou seem to know a lot about it," she said. "And you do subtleties.""Yeah. Like I've always wanted to destroy the Nine Worlds while committing suicide.""Well, there's no need to be rude," protested Sif.Joanne Harris / quote ↗
12UndatedOld habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes, the impulse never quite leaves youJoanne Harris / quote ↗
13UndatedAs she grew older, Maddy discovered that she had disappointed almost everyone. An awkward girl with a sullen mouth, a curtain of hair, and a tendency to slouch, she had neither Mae's sweet nature nor sweet face. Her eyes were rather beautiful, but few people ever noticed this, and it was widely believed Maddy was ugly, a troublemaker, too clever for her own good, too stubborn - or too slack - to change.Of course, folk agreed that it was not her fault she was so brown or her sister so pretty, but a smile costs nothing, as the saying goes, and if only the girl had made an effort once in a while, or even showed a little gratitude for all the help and free advice, then maybe she would have settled down.Joanne Harris / quote ↗
14UndatedI happen to know that history is nothing but a spin and metaphor, which is what all yarns are made up of, when you strip them down to the underlay. And what makes a hit or a myth, of course, is how that story is told, and by whom.Joanne Harris / quote ↗
15UndatedLibrary-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.Joanne Harris / quote ↗
19UndatedI dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.Joanne Harris / quote ↗
