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

152. “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.”

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

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154. “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.”

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

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159. “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

160. “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

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

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164. “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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165. “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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166. “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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167. “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

168. “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.”

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169. “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.”

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

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

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173. “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

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

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175. “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.”

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

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

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178. “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.”

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

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

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

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183. “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.”

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184. “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.”

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185. “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

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

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

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

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190. “I loved you by then, or would soon, or always had. It was inevitable, foretold: When I look up, I will see the sky; when I fight, I will win; when I meet Owen Mallory, I will love him.”

— Alix E. Harrow

191. “You led me into archives and private collections, libraries and museums, ancient ruins and family vaults. I excelled at the chase – I had a better-than-average memory and an eye for detail, and a mind that clicked obediently along like a series of bright brass gears. But it was like hunting in a hall of mirrors; I caught glimpses of bright armor or pale hair, but when I reached out, I touched nothing but glass.”

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192. “The newest one was a German immigrant named Miss Wilda, who wore heavy black woolen gowns and an expression that said she hadn’t seen much of the twentieth century yet but heartily disapproved of it thus far.”

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193. “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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194. “Mags said magic invited a certain amount of mess. That’s why the honeysuckle grew three times as large around her house, and birds nested in her eaves nomatter the season.”

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195. “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.”

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196. “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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197. “No. There was too much to do – finish my damn book, find Jane, find my father, write it all right again – to stay locked up here like some tragic orphan girl in a Gothic novel. Plus, if I stayed past dark I was three quarters certain a vampire would climb through my window and eat me.”

— Alix E. Harrow

198. “We are all what we have to be, to stay alive. Cowards. Traitors.” The eyes flash, lighting behind the clouds. “Even villains, sometimes. Surely you can’t hate her for it.”

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

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200. “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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