Joanne Harris Lollipop Shoes Quotes

#1. Love not often, but forever. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#2. I don't understand a word you're saying," snapped Odin.
"That's because you're throttlin' me, sir," said Sugar.
Odin loosened his grip. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#3. It was one of those red-gold early October days, the air crisp and tart as heady as applejack, and even at dawn the sky was the clear, purplish blue that only the finest of autumn days brings. There are maybe three such days in a year. I sang as I lifted my traps, and my voice bounced off the misty banks of the Loire like a challenge. It was the mushroom season, so after I had brought my catch back to the farm and cleaned it out, I took some bread and cheese for breakfast and set out into the woods to hunt for mushrooms. I was always good at that. Still am, to tell the truth, but in those days I had a nose like a truffle pig's. I could smell those mushrooms out, the gray chanterelle and the orange, with its apricot scent, the bolet and the petit rose and the edible puffball and the brown-cap and the blue-cap. Mother always told us to take our mushrooms to the pharmacy to ensure we had not gathered anything poisonous, but I never made a mistake. I knew the meaty scent of the bolet and the dry, earthy smell of the brown-cap mushroom. I knew their haunts and breeding grounds. I was a patient collector. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#4. I was convinced I'd hate Twitter - but I've come to like it very much. I use it mostly to keep in touch with friends and colleagues I wish I could see more often - I sometimes feel a little isolated living in Yorkshire, and it's nice to have the contact. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#5. People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#6. It's too early for strawberries. But the clearing is filled with their leaves and their little white flowers, like fallen stars. The wishing well was covered, too, so that only someone who knew it was there would have really noticed it. It looks like a barrow under the green; somewhere fairies or goblins might live. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#7. Nothing dreamed is ever lost, and nothing lost forever. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#8. A thing named is a thing tamed. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#9. But stories are worlds. New worlds for us to visit. In stories, we live forever. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#10. In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#11. I have an English identity and a French identity. When I'm in France, I'm more outgoing. And the French part of me cooks, whereas the English part of me writes. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#12. Don't worry so much about 'not supposed to'. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#13. Knowledge is currency here.... #Quote by Joanne Harris

#14. I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#15. Why can no one here think of anything but chocolates? #Quote by Joanne Harris

#16. 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. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#17. I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#18. A demon, if you prefer the term; although to be honest, the difference between god and a demon is really only a matter of perspective. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#19. No one should be so precious as to refuse criticism of their work. But to respect an opinion, we have to know that it was given honestly and with proper thought. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#20. To be a mother is to live in fear. Fear of death, of sickness, of loss, of accidents, of strangers, of the Black Man, or simply those small everyday things that somehow manage to hurt us most: the look of impatience, the angry word, the missed bedtime story, the forgotten kiss, the terrible moment when a mother ceases to be the center of her daughter's world and becomes #Quote by Joanne Harris

#21. And yet I could still hear them. As if some part of their essence had evaporated into the air, become a part of this place, ingrained, like the scent of cigarettes and burning sugar, in the woodwork and plaster. Everything was buzzing with that vanished presence, buzzing and singing and laughing louder than ever before, stone and tile and polished wood, all whispering with agitation and excitement; never still, never silent. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#22. Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place #Quote by Joanne Harris

#23. And Odin should have known from the first that perfect Order does not bend; it simply stands until it breaks, which is why it rarely survives for any meaningful length of time. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#24. And yes,I was fabulous. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#25. She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#26. Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, ... some lies can be true, ... broken faith may be restored. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#27. You see, I do believe in miracles. I, who have passed through fire. I do believe. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#28. The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#29. I know you," said Maddy. "You're -"
"What's a name?" Loki grinned. "Wear it like a coat; turn it, burn it, throw it aside, and borrow another. One-Eye knows; you should ask him."
"But Loki died," she said, shaking her head. "He died on the field at Ragnarok."
"Not quite." He pulled a face. "You know there's rather a lot the Oracle didn't foretell, and old tales have a habit of getting twisted."
"But in any case, that was centuries ago," Maddy said bewildered. "I mean - that was the End of the World, wasn't it?"
"So?" said Loki impatiently. "This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#30. Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh! #Quote by Joanne Harris

#31. Not that a promise means much to a demon - or a god. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#32. Wisdom isn't everything. Survival requires an element of trickery, Chaos, subterfuge. All qualities I possess (if I may say so) in abundance. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#33. I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#34. I'm warning you now," said Freyja stiffly, "I have ... certain issues ... with Loki." (Maddy wondered briefly whether there was anyone in the Nine Worlds who didn't have issues with Loki.) #Quote by Joanne Harris

#35. It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#36. We're gods, not saints. Everyone lies. Everyone cheats. Everyone scores off everyone else. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#37. A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the rhyme,
Ou va-ti mistigri?
Passe sans faire de mai ici. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#38. I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#39. I 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. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#40. Online communities are an expression of loneliness. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#41. The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#42. Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#43. Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#44. Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#45. 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. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#46. I'm insatiably curious. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#47. One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones. #Quote by Joanne Harris

#48. The wind always brings us back to the same wall #Quote by Joanne Harris