Author of quotes: Joanne Harris

Knowledge is a heavy burden, Raynaud. No less heavy than the burden of guilt. You already know this well, because you accept other people's confessions and forgive other people's sins.

Mom always assures me that dreams are some kind of secret lessons.

Yes, I drink too much coffee and it certainly makes my insomnia worse. However, I am sure that it is coffee that clears the brain the best - at least for a while.

He simply belonged to the number of perfectionists who recognize only absolute concepts - good and evil, bad and good - and therefore he was completely incapable of compromising.

Being a mother means knowing love and loss equally.

Circle in the sand. Along the edges are multi-colored candles. Red is passion, blue is peace, green is growth, pink is love. And black is also a symbol of midnight deeds, unspoken secrets, untold tales.

People used to believe that the soul of the dead could be caught in a mirror, like a trap. That is why many of the old people here are still in a hurry to curtain all the mirrors when someone dies in the house, and the clock is stopped to give the dead person the opportunity to get to heaven before the devil knows about his death.

Along with the cassock you put on certain official manners, which, like the cassock, in some cases serve as your protection.

Love changes everything. Love has made me so much better. It's just a dream they've been sold. And in it lies their hope for the remission of sins. However, the world is still spinning, burdened with sins and troubles.

Well, here again is the old love story that transforms everyone. Which atones for any sins. How many times have I heard this story from both hopeful women with broken teeth and hopeful men who have been denied love.

Since I was raised a militant Catholic, my upbringing was based on the myth of human guilt and divine justice, so it never occurred to me that a criminal could go unpunished.

To draw means, overcoming difficulties, to pull something out.

You can't live your whole life in fear.

Life is also an accident.