Top 280 Alix E. Harrow Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 3 of 6

101. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

103. “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

104. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

106. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

108. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

109. “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

110. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

112. “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

113. “If you want to blame someone for a fire, look for the men holding matches.”

— Alix E. Harrow

114. “True scholarship needs neither an origin nor a destination, good master. To seek new knowledge is its own motivation.” This was precisely the sort of lofty non-answer that pleased scholars best.”

— Alix E. Harrow

115. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

117. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

120. “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

121. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

125. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

127. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

130. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

132. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

135. “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

136. “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

137. “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

138. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

140. “Behind every witch is a woman wronged.”

— Alix E. Harrow

141. “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

142. “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

143. “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

144. “At this point, you’re thinking this story isn’t really about Doors, but about those more private, altogether more miraculous doors that can open between two hearts. Perhaps it is in the end – I happen to believe every story is a love story if you catch it at the right moment, slantwise in the light of dusk – but it wasn’t then.”

— Alix E. Harrow

145. “You people are always trying to invent reasons for things. Monsters only come for bad children, for loose women, for impious men. The truth is that the powerful come for the weak, whenever and wherever they like. Always have, always will.”

— Alix E. Harrow

146. “He doesn’t move or speak, but he doesn’t need to. I know his desires by the pace of his breath and the tilt of his shoulders, by the shape of his jaw and the heat of his gaze. I know him, and in knowing him I love him, and in loving him I cannot do as he wishes.”

— Alix E. Harrow

147. “You grew strong over those years, and fast, until your body was no longer something you wore but something you wielded, and Lord, what a weapon it became.”

— Alix E. Harrow

148. “She looks in that moment less like a woman and more like a harpy. Like an ending long overdue, like a reckoning in a white dress.”

— Alix E. Harrow

149. “The air smells green and secret, surprising Beatrice with a rare pang of homesickness for Crow County; she supposes a person doesn’t have to love their home in order to miss it.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow