Quotes by Joanne Harris

About Joanne Harris:

Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris is an English author, best known for her award-winning novel Chocolat which was later turned into a successful film.
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Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

Joanne Harris

A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the rhyme,

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C'è un alone di stregoneria in tutta la cucina; la scelta degli ingredienti, il modo in cui vengono mescolati, grattugiati, sciolti, le infusioni e come si insaporiscono, le ricette prese da vecchi libri, gli utensili tradizionali

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The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

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I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

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Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

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I can smell her perfume, something flowery, too strong in this enclosed darkness. I wonder if this is temptation. If so, I am stone.

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For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.

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Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes, the impulse never quite leaves you

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I 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.

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This is something different again. A feeling of peace. The feeling you get when a recipe turns out perfectly right, a perfectly risen souffle, a flawless sauce hollandaise. It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of ...

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People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what local historians like to tell you.

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It'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.

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Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

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The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.

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I'm only keeping in touch with you for the sake of the children. Way to look after our son, by the way. I let you have him for the weekend and before I know it he's chained underground, awaiting Last Times and stinking of mead.

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Even the damned can dream - infact, it's part of their torment. To escape, even for a second or two, to forget reality and drift, only to be yanked back into the waking world like a fish caught on a line... Yes. In some ways that's even worse than to...

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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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There's also a lot of random stuff about poetry, flowers and lute music, plus kissing and cuddling (lots of this), wearing similar outfits, talking incessantly about the current object of devotion, and generally losing one's faculties.

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I 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.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameJoanne Harris
  • DescriptionBritish author
  • BornJuly 3, 1964
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter
  • WorksChocolat; Five Quarters Of The Orange
  • AwardsMember Of The Order Of The British Empire