Top 280 Alix E. Harrow Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

104. “She is a silhouette on the windowsill, an apparition in the alley, a woman there and gone again. She is a pocket full of witch-ways and a voice whispering the right words to the right woman, the clack of a cane against cobbles.”

— Alix E. Harrow

105. “The problem with saving someone, Bella thinks, is that they so often refuse to remain saved. They careen back out into the perilous world, inviting every danger and calamity, quite careless of the labor it took to rescue them in the first place.”

— Alix E. Harrow

106. “I wonder sometimes where the first witch came from. If perhaps Adam deserved Eve’s curse.” His smile twists. “If behind every witch is a woman wronged.”

— Alix E. Harrow

107. “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.”

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108. “It used to be witches were wild as crows and fearless as foxes, because magic blazed bright and the night was theirs. But then came the plague and the purges. The dragons were slain and the witches were burned and the night belonged to men with torches and crosses.”

— Alix E. Harrow

109. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

111. “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

112. “She doesn’t know why she did it. Maybe she’s tired of knowing better, of minding her place.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

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114. “Bella informs her that this is the precise reason why women’s dresses no longer have pockets, to show they bear no witch-ways or ill intentions, and Juniper responds that she has both, thank you very much.”

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115. “Power, my dear, has a language. It has a geography, a currency, and – I’m sorry – a color. This is not something you may take personally or object to; it is simply a fact of the world, and the sooner you accustom yourself to it, the better.”

— Alix E. Harrow

116. “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

117. “One witch you can laugh at. Three you can burn. But what do you do with a hundred?”

— Alix E. Harrow

118. “Seems to me they’re the same thing, more of less. Witching and women’s rights. Suffrage and spells. They’re both... They’re both a kind of power, aren’t they? The kind we aren’t allowed to have.” -Juniper.”

— Alix E. Harrow

119. “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

120. “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

121. “The silence that followed his departure was shy and slinking, as if it wanted to be awkward but didn’t quite dare beneath Miss Irimu’s steady eye.”

— Alix E. Harrow

122. “The backlash will come one day, the way it always does. I know the world won’t change easy.”

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123. “Like a girl with a lit match, finally shown something she can burn.”

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124. “She knows powerful men only keep their promises when they have to, and they never have to.”

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125. “Ouroboran self-destruction.”

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126. “It was my own fault. My fault, for thinking I could just run away, gather my nerve and walk into the wide unknown like a hero beginning a quest, For thinking I could bend the rules, just a little, and and write myself into some better, grander story.”

— Alix E. Harrow

127. “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

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

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129. “Doors, once closed, do not reopen.”

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130. “Because it’s easy to ignore a woman. But a hell of a lot harder to ignore a witch.”

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131. “True witching, old and dark and wild as midnight.”

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132. “It’s stupid to think things like that. It just gives you this hollow, achy feeling between your ribs, like you’re homesick even though you’re already home, and you can’t read your magazine anymore because the words are all warped and watery-looking.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

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134. “Juniper keeps a little flame flickering in her chest, a bitter, hungry thing just waiting for something to burn.”

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135. “I have no home, no porch light. But I have what I need, and it’s enough, It’s just that sometimes, God help me, I want more.”

— Alix E. Harrow

136. “I should have spent more time thinking about your life than worrying about your death.”

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

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138. “Sometimes I was so lonely I thought I might wither into ash and drift away on the next errant breeze.”

— Alix E. Harrow

139. “Life has a kind of momentum to it, I’ve found, an accumulated weight of decisions which becomes impossible to shift.”

— Alix E. Harrow

140. “They had unearthed the rough shape of the love between them and were content to let the rest of it proceed more sedately, unfurling like an endless sea before their prow.”

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141. “I wanted to believe him, but I’d met enough empty promises in my life to know one when I heard it.”

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142. “Unless there are words and ways waiting among the children’s verses; power passes in secret from mother to daughter, like swords disguised as sewing needles.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

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

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

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146. “I liked the stillness of the room, too, and the way the smell of him lingered in the air like dust motes: sea salt and spices and strange stars.”

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147. “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

148. “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

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

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150. “The boy returned at ten-thirty on a Tuesday morning. It’s official library policy to report truants to the high school, because the school board felt we were becoming ‘a haven for unsupervised and illicit teenage activity.’ I happen to think that’s exactly what libraries should aspire to be, and suggested we get it engraved on a plaque for the front door.”

— Alix E. Harrow