Top 280 Alix E. Harrow Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “In the pain of my loss, I gave you the pain of absence.”

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152. “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.”

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153. “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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154. “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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155. “But Doors, like murder suspects in cheap mysteries, are often where you least expect them.”

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156. “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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157. “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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158. “It’s a risk just to be a woman, in my experience. No matter how healthy or hardworking she is.”

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159. “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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160. “Because it’s easy to ignore a woman.” Juniper’s lips twist in a feral smile. “But a hell of a lot harder to ignore a witch.”

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161. “Maybe,” he said slowly, “maybe I did not make myself clear before, when I said I was on your side. I meant also that I would like to be at your side, to go with you into every door and danger, to run with you into your tangled-up future. For” – and a distant part of me was gratified to note that his voice had gone wobbly and strained – “for always. If you like.”

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162. “Now she wants so much more than merely to survive.”

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163. “When you travel with money, you follow a smooth, well-worn path through the world.”

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164. “I wonder if the feeling will fade. If the memory of a single season will be buried beneath the weight of ordinary years, until it is just a story, just another little lie. If I will learn to be content with enough, and forget that I was ever foolish enough to want more.”

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165. “Of all the items in my collections, I’ve treasured you most of all.”

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166. “His expression made me think of old-timey illustrations of god: severely paternal, bestowing the kind of love that weighs and measures before it find you worthy.”

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167. “But she also knows there are times when every choice is a losing one, when you just have to go in swinging and hope you make it out alive.”

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168. “Witching isn’t all gone, of course. My grandmother, Mama Mags, says they can’t ever kill magic because it beats like a great red heartbeat on the other side of everything, that if you close your eyes you can feel it thrumming beneath the soles of your feet, thumpthumpthump. It’s just a lot better-behaved than it used to be.”

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169. “You woke panting and sweating, your body fighting battles you’d already won or hadn’t yet fought.”

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170. “All of them stepped out of their own narratives to save someone else.”

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171. “Writing a book is dangerous business, if done correctly.”

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172. “Because asking is dangerous, I could tell her. Because to ask is to hope that someone answers, and it hurts so bad when nobody does. I stiffen my spine instead.”

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173. “He consumed books as if they were as necessary to his health as bread and water, but they were rarely the books he had been assigned.”

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174. “In the stories, it’s generally best to do whatever the hell the talking animal tells you.”

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175. “Girls who go looking for trouble usually find it.”

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176. “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.”

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177. “Bella, who was apparently eavesdropping, begins to say something about the absence of historical evidence that witches specifically preferred broomsticks, and that such stories likely refer to any number of spells for flight or levitation – but Agnes interrupts her on the grounds that it’s boring and no one cares. “That information is for Sisters only, Mr. Lee.”

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178. “Bella resettles her spectacles. “But the spell to call back the Lost Way of Avalon. It required a maiden, a mother, and a crone, did it not?” The Crone shrugs. “Every woman is usually at least one of those. Sometimes all three and a few others besides.”

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179. “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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180. “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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181. “It’s just the way people work. You tell them a story, and they require an ending.”

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182. “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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183. “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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184. “We’ll talk when I return.”

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

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

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

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190. “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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191. “I can’t remember if they did the “speak now or forever hold your peace” thing in Medieval times, or if it’s one of those Victorian inventions, like brides wearing white or homophobia.”

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192. “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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193. “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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194. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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200. “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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