Top 350 Alix E. Harrow Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

154. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

157. “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

158. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

160. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

162. “As a man of God I disapprove, but as a mere man, well... I wonder sometimes where the first witch came from. If perhaps Adam deserved Eve’s curse. If behind every witch is a woman wronged.” -Mr. Blackwell.”

— Alix E. Harrow

163. “They averted their eyes from evil, and in doing so, became complicit in it.”

— Alix E. Harrow

164. “It occurred to me that dogs are probably never lost in the in-between, because they always know precisely where they are going.”

— Alix E. Harrow

165. “Agnes interrupts her on the grounds that it’s boring and no one cares.”

— Alix E. Harrow

166. “No scholar, no matter how clever or meticulous, can map smoke and myth onto the page.”

— Alix E. Harrow

167. “Wickedness was like beauty: in the eye of the beholder.”

— Alix E. Harrow

168. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

169. “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

170. “To every child who needs a way into Underland. Befriend the Beasts, children, and follow them down.”

— Alix E. Harrow

171. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

172. “There was no room, it turned out, for little girls who wandered off the edge of the map and told the truth about the mad, impossible things they found there.”

— Alix E. Harrow

173. “They tell us a hundred different stories, which are all the same story: We love you, and have always loved you.”

— Alix E. Harrow

174. “He loves pieces of her – the thunder-blue of her eyes, the full moon-glow of her breasts in the dark – but he never even met most of her. If he peeled back her pretty skin he’d find nothing soft or sweet at all, just busted glass and ashes and the desperate, animal will to stay alive.”

— Alix E. Harrow

175. “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

176. “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

177. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

179. “He looks like a boy who wanted to grow flowers but was handed a sword instead. He looks like a man who gave up on hope a long time ago, but who keeps fighting anyway, on and on.”

— Alix E. Harrow

180. “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

181. “That temper will get you burnt at the damn stake, Mama Mags used to tell her. A wise woman keeps her burning on the inside.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

186. “I see her choosing now whether to make her love into a cage or a key.”

— Alix E. Harrow

187. “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

188. “I stumbled over something grand and wild, something that rips a hole in the shape of the world. I wrote something and it was true.”

— Alix E. Harrow

189. “Let us lie here forever. Let us be buried as wild things are, by tooth and claw and worm. Let the grasses grow up through the sockets of our eyes. Let them find us in seven years or seventy, and let their brows furrow, because they cannot tell my bones from yours.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

191. “I liked what you said about e-equality.” The word feels silly in her mouth, four syllables of make-believe and rainbows.”

— Alix E. Harrow

192. “Did women actually faint, I wondered, or was that an invention of bad Victorian novels and Friday night picture shows? Or perhaps women simply contrived to collapse at convenient moments to delay the burden of hearing and seeing and feeling, just for a little while. I sympathized.”

— Alix E. Harrow

193. “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

194. “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

195. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow