Top 280 Alix E. Harrow Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

105. “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

106. “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

107. “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

108. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

110. “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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111. “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.”

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112. “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.”

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113. “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

114. “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

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

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

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118. “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.”

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

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

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121. “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

122. “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

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

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124. “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.”

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125. “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.”

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

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

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

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129. “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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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. “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

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

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133. “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

134. “History is a circle, and you people are always looking for the beginnings and endings of it.”

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

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

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

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

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139. “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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140. “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

141. “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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142. “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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143. “Juniper keeps a little flame flickering in her chest, a bitter, hungry thing just waiting for something to burn.”

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144. “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.”

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145. “It’s a risk just to be a woman, in my experience. No matter how healthy or hardworking she is.”

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146. “She thinks of Jonah in the belly of the whale and the little red witch inside the wolf and wonders if either of them felt a little relieved to be eaten, to be taken away from the world and permitted to curl in the suffocating black, alone.”

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

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

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

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150. “Ouroboran self-destruction.”

— Alix E. Harrow