Top 280 Alix E. Harrow Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The truth is: Adelaide was the most beautiful being I have seen in this world or any other, if we understand beauty to be a kind of vital, ferocious burning at a soul’s center that ignites everything it touches.”

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

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103. “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

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

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

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106. “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

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

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108. “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.”

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109. “Her eyes were wind-whipped and her smile at the night sky was sly, as if she and the stars were on familiar terms.”

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110. “Listen, not every story is made for telling. Sometimes just by telling a story you’re stealing it, stealing a little of the mystery away from it.”

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111. “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

112. “Maybe magic is just the space between what you have and what you need.”

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113. “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.”

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114. “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

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

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116. “She should like a grief-struck madwoman, broken and hopeless, but instead she looks like an angel cast down from Heaven struggling back to her feet with blood on her teeth, ready to make war with God himself.”

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117. “I expected him to shout at me, perhaps even hoped he would. I wanted him to abandon this pretense of goodwill and good intentions, to cackle with glee. That was what villains were supposed to do; that was what gave the heroes permission to hate them.”

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

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119. “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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120. “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.”

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121. “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.”

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

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123. “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.”

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124. “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

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

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

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

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128. “Ouroboran self-destruction.”

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129. “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

130. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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142. “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.”

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143. “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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144. “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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145. “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.”

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

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

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148. “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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149. “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.”

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150. “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.”

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