Top 350 Alix E. Harrow Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Except she’s not a baby anymore: her jaw is hard and square, her shoulders wide, her eyes blazing with a grown woman’s helping of hate.”

— Alix E. Harrow

102. “It occurs to me that this lonely, beastly, bleeding boy is the only person who has ever fought for me, ever stood between me and the dark and told me to save myself.”

— Alix E. Harrow

103. “I wanted to run away and keep running until I fell into some other, better world. And then I remembered the book.”

— Alix E. Harrow

104. “Agnes learned young that you have a family right up until you don’t. You take care of people right up until you can’t, until you have to choose between staying and surviving.”

— Alix E. Harrow

105. “I am terrified and I am terrible. I am fearful and I am something to be feared. She meets Miss Araminta’s eyes, dark and knowing, sharp and soft, and thinks maybe every mother is both things at once.”

— Alix E. Harrow

106. “And you found you did not mind being a devil, so long as you were his.”

— Alix E. Harrow

107. “It isn’t pain or suffering that unmakes a person; it’s only time.”

— Alix E. Harrow

108. “Because it’s easy to ignore a woman.” Juniper’s lips twist in a feral smile. “But a hell of a lot harder to ignore a witch.”

— Alix E. Harrow

109. “She said proper witching is just a conversation with that red heartbeat, which only ever takes three things: the will to listen to it, the words to speak with it, and the way to let it into the world. The will, the words, and the way.”

— Alix E. Harrow

110. “I can’t remember if they did the “speak now or forever hold your peace” thing in Medieval times, or if it’s one of those Victorian inventions, like brides wearing white or homophobia.”

— Alix E. Harrow

111. “She knows what’s coming better than her sisters. She knows that history digs a shallow grave, and that the past is always waiting to rise again.”

— Alix E. Harrow

112. “The kind of stillness that makes you realize you have just mis-stepped very badly, even if you don’t see how.”

— Alix E. Harrow

113. “Books can smell of cheap thrills or painstaking scholarship, of literary weight or unsolved mysteries.”

— Alix E. Harrow

114. “Things can’t just keep on forever the way they are, January. Things must change.”

— Alix E. Harrow

115. “Maybe it’s even true; maybe everybody has to survive the best they can.”

— Alix E. Harrow

116. “I lay in bed, feeling the champagne tide retreating and leaving me beached, like some unfortunate sea creature. In its absence the Thing – heavy, black, suffocating – returned, as if it had been waiting all evening for the two of us to be alone. It slid oil-slick over my skin, filled my nostrils, pooled at the back of my throat. It whispered in my ear, stories about loss and loneliness and little orphan girls.”

— Alix E. Harrow

117. “She accumulated the dust of other worlds on her skin like ten thousand perfumes, and left constellations of wistful men and impossible tales in her wake.”

— Alix E. Harrow

118. “Because the place you are born isn’t necessarily the place you belong. I was born into a world that abandoned me, stole from me, rejected me; is it so surprising I found a better one?”

— Alix E. Harrow

119. “Agnes feels a heady heat through her, like summer wine. Men really ought to try offers of fealty rather than flowers.”

— Alix E. Harrow

120. “We disappeared into our separate worlds, together but apart, and it was so peaceful and right-feeling that I found myself pretending that it happened every morning.”

— Alix E. Harrow

121. “The Calamitous Coven.” “No.” “Eve’s Army.” “No! It ought to be about, I don’t know, sisterhood or union – ” “The Ladies Union of Giving the Bastards What’s Coming to Them.”

— Alix E. Harrow

122. “Even among the other nerds who majored in folklore, Sleeping Beauty is nobody’s favorite. Romantic girls like Beauty and the Beast; vanilla girls like Cinderella; goth girls like Snow White. Only dying girls like Sleeping Beauty.”

— Alix E. Harrow

123. “It’s an odd feeling, having one’s wildest suspicions proved true. It’s satisfying to find you aren’t insane, of course, but somewhat disheartening to realize you are indeed being hunted by a shadowy organization of apparently infinite reach.”

— Alix E. Harrow

124. “Old women are supposed to be doting and addled, absent-minded grandmothers who spoil their sons and keep soup bubbling on the stove-top, but the Crone is none of those things. She’s the canny one, the knowing one, the too-wise witch who knows the words to every curse and the ingredients for every poison. She is Baba Yaga and Black Anna; she is the wicked fairy who hands out curses rather than christening-gifts.”

— Alix E. Harrow

125. “I’d like to leave you with the rising suspicion that, lingering in the half-light at the edges of your vision, your Door is waiting for you. And I’d like to give you the courage to run through it.”

— Alix E. Harrow

126. “Most people can’t tell the difference between truth telling and madness.”

— Alix E. Harrow

127. “I wonder what the songs will say about the Devil now that she is covered in the blood of her own God.”

— Alix E. Harrow

128. “I am terrified and I am terrible. I am fearful and I am something to be feared.”

— Alix E. Harrow

129. “She didn’t think throwing down the tyranny of man would take so many meetings, but apparently it does.”

— Alix E. Harrow

130. “She’s surprised to feel a pang of pity for them: they thought they were in the kind of story where the wicked witches were caught and burned at the end, where all the little children were tucked safely into bed with the smell of smoke in their hair. It must be upsetting to discover themselves in the kind of story where the witches make friends with the flames instead, where they snap their chains and laugh up at the stars with sharp teeth.”

— Alix E. Harrow

131. “I would rather love a coward than mourn a legend.”

— Alix E. Harrow

132. “Surely trust is never truly broken, but merely lost.” Beatrice’s lips twist. “And what is lost, that can’t be found?”

— Alix E. Harrow

133. “Except I won’t le him, because I need him. And I might be a liar and a thief and a cheat, but I’ll walk barefoot through hell for what I need.”

— Alix E. Harrow

134. “And if it hurts either way surely she should at least enjoy the sin for which she suffers.”

— Alix E. Harrow

135. “Men really ought to try offers of fealty rather than flowers.”

— Alix E. Harrow

136. “It occurs to me that I’ve been mourning two people all these years – the mother I had, and the mother I wish I had – and that neither of them was the one who kept a roof over my head.”

— Alix E. Harrow

137. “You know it wasn’t originally a spinning wheel in the story?′ I offer, because alcohol transforms me into a chatty Wikipedia.”

— Alix E. Harrow

138. “If you are too good and too quiet for too long, it will cost you. It.”

— Alix E. Harrow

139. “In the pain of my loss, I gave you the pain of absence.”

— Alix E. Harrow

140. “Winter crept over Nin stealthily, like a great white cat made of chill mists and sharp-edged winds.”

— Alix E. Harrow

141. “Ouroboran self-destruction.”

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142. “But sometimes it feels like I’m pulling up the carpeting in an old house, and finding everything underneath has gone to rot.”

— Alix E. Harrow

143. “She felt rubbed raw, as if the grasses in the field had been sharp-edged, cutting away at that childish part of her that believed in adventure and magic.”

— Alix E. Harrow

144. “Such a small, brave act of kindness, repaid with suffering. I’d thought only sins were punished.”

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145. “You have to make the best of whatever story you were born into, and if your story happens to suck ass, well, maybe you can do some good before you go.”

— Alix E. Harrow

146. “I’m at least three-fourths straight, but her lashes are very long, and very golden, and I’m not made of stone.”

— Alix E. Harrow

147. “The Constitution? What, exactly, do you think the Constitution is? A magic spell? A dragon, perhaps, that will swoop down to defend you in your most desperate hour?” Cleo straightens in her seat. Juniper doesn’t think she’s ever seen a face so full of scorn. “I assure you it has only ever been a piece of paper, and it has only ever applied to a very few persons.”

— Alix E. Harrow

148. “I later learned that her people had no number higher than ten thousand, and claiming there were ten thousand of a thing meant there was no purpose in counting them because they were infinite.”

— Alix E. Harrow

149. “Witching and women’s rights. Suffrage and spells. They’re both... ” She gestures in midair again. “They’re both a kind of power, aren’t they? The kind we aren’t allowed to have.”

— Alix E. Harrow

150. “I shouldn’t be proud, because I did not raise you – but I am.”

— Alix E. Harrow