Top 280 Alix E. Harrow Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I riffle through my mental box of inspirational quotes and come up with a Dylan Thomas line that I actually know from Interstellar. “Do not go gentle into that good night, princess.”

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152. “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.”

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153. “But Doors, like murder suspects in cheap mysteries, are often where you least expect them.”

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154. “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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155. “Something about having a child bends you back to your beginnings, as if you have been drawing a circle all your life and now are compelled to close it.”

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

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157. “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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158. “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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159. “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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160. “Maybe magic is just the space between what you have and what you need.”

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

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163. “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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164. “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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165. “I say “amateur” only because it was fashionable for wealthy men to refer to their passions in this dismissive way, with a little flick of their fingers, as if admitting to a profession other than moneymaking might sully their reputations.”

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166. “Yet he’s still scared. What is he afraid of?” “Same thing every powerful man is afraid of.” The Crone shrugs. “The day the truth comes out.” “The day he gets what’s coming,” says the Maiden. The Mother meets Agnes’s eyes and Juniper sees something pass between them, the gleam of a tossed blade. “Us.”

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167. “It’s just the way people work. You tell them a story, and they require an ending.”

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168. “She stares down into a small, furrowed face, faintly imperious, like a tiny deity who hasn’t seen much of the world yet but is already unimpressed.”

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169. “Agnes marvels at the contradiction of her: bright-eyed and black-hearted, vicious and vulnerable, a girl who knows so little of the world and far too much.”

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170. “We’ll talk when I return.”

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171. “Agnes wonders who taught her to hold a grudge, to feed and tend to it like a wild-caught wolf pup until it grew big and mean enough to swallow a man whole.”

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172. “But even I must admit that love is not always graceful.”

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173. “I could have killed you,” you said, and he had answered, obscurely, “You never do.”

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174. “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.”

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175. “I persist in having all manner of opinions and observations.”

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176. “Voting doesn’t seem like a waste of time to me.” She’s still fooling with her egg yolk, swirling it into gummy circles. Agnes’s stomach heaves. “Look, all that ‘votes for women’ stuff sounds real noble and all, but they don’t mean women like you and me. They mean nice uptown ladies with big hats and too much time on their hands.”

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177. “I will not be your leash, my love’. Ade looked at him then, with a soaring expression so full of love that Yule Ian knew he had done something not merely kind but utterly vital.”

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178. “And you understood, finally, that there had never truly been a she or a you but only a terrible, lonely I.”

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179. “Surviving is often a matter of knowing when you’re beat.”

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180. “I think they stole the words and ways from us, and left us nothing but our wills.”

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181. “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?”

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182. “She wonders if he hears the shake in her voice, and whether he mistakes it for fear.”

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183. “Because he can’t quite imagine loving anything more than he loves himself.”

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184. “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.”

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185. “It is never advisable to make decisions before dawn or without consulting one’s spouse, and he had done both.”

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186. “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.”

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187. “The trick to being nothing is to want nothing.”

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188. “The wind rises. It rushes through the square, midnight-cool and mischievous, fluttering the pages of Miss Cady Stone’s notes. It smells wild and sweet, half-familiar, like Mama Mags’s house on the solstice. Like earth and char and old magic. Like the small, feral roses that bloomed in the deep woods.”

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189. “She was young and graceful and had the sort of face that launches ships and eats hearts.”

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190. “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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191. “But I remind you that he was merely a man. Whereas we” – she looks over her spectacles at Agnes and gives her a very small smile – “are witches.”

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192. “Being a perfectly unique specimen is lonely, as it turns out.”

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193. “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. They preened and cooed like doves around him, signing their names to his proposal with many extra flourishes.”

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194. “Even my own writings – so damnably powerless – may have just enough power to reach the right person and to tell the right truth, and change the nature of things.”

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

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196. “A witch is just a woman who wants too much.”

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197. “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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198. “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.”

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199. “Perhaps one cannot walk through a door and back out again without changing the world.”

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

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