Top 350 Alix E. Harrow Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Starling House makes me think of an underfed pet or a broken doll, a thing unloved by the person who promised to love it best.”

— Alix E. Harrow

202. “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

203. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

205. “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

206. “But it was borrowed privilege and I knew it.”

— Alix E. Harrow

207. “She knew me then, at the beginning of ourselves, and she knew me now, here at the end, when she did not even know herself.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

209. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

211. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

215. “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

216. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

218. “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

219. “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

220. “It’s one of those respectable, pocketless affairs that obliges ladies to carry stupid little handbags, so Juniper can’t take so much as a melted candle-stub or a single snake tooth with her. 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 damn much.”

— Alix E. Harrow

221. “When you save someone, sometimes they save you right back.”

— Alix E. Harrow

222. “We may be either beloved or burned, but never trusted with any degree of power.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

224. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

225. “Perhaps young girls are like camels, and there are only so many straws they can carry before they break.”

— Alix E. Harrow

226. “Arthur went down, and I know him too well to imagine he’s coming back up unless I drag him behind me, a sullen Eurydice. I know the hard set of his jaw and the soft slide of his lips, I know the terrible guilt that drives him and the scars it left behind. I know he is the thing I have been chasing and craving, searching and waiting and hoping for my entire life: home.”

— Alix E. Harrow

227. “I wanted to tell him the truth – 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 – but I’d learned better. I was a good girl now.”

— Alix E. Harrow

228. “One does not fall in love; one discovers it.”

— Alix E. Harrow

229. “Then he closes his eyes very deliberately, and I recognize this, too; this is what it looks like when you swallow all your hunger. When you want what you can’t have, so you bury it like a knife between your ribs.”

— Alix E. Harrow

230. “Doors, he told her, are change, and change is a dangerous necessity. Doors are revolutions and upheavals, uncertainties and mysteries, axis points around which entire worlds can be turned. They are the beginnings and endings of every true story, the passages between that lead to adventures and madness and- here he smiled- even love. Without doors the worlds would grow stagnant, calcified, storyless.”

— Alix E. Harrow

231. “You’re a plague and a calamity and you should be locked up for the safety of the city.”

— Alix E. Harrow

232. “I am not sure which I prefer: To be taken for something I am not, or to fail at being what I am.”

— Alix E. Harrow

233. “It’s easier to fall apart when no one is watching you.”

— Alix E. Harrow

234. “But even if I could tame my own impulses and write something scholarly, I fear it would not matter, because who would take seriously my claims without solid proof? Proof that I cannot provide, because it disappears almost as soon as I discover it.”

— Alix E. Harrow

235. “Juniper never thought much about her sisters’ lives after they left Crow County – they’d just walked off the edge of the page and vanished, a pair of unfinished sentences – but she thought a lot about what she’d say if she ever saw them again.”

— Alix E. Harrow

236. “He doesn’t look like a dancer. He looks like a boy who wanted to grow flowers but was handed a sword instead.”

— Alix E. Harrow

237. “Maybe the truth is always messy that way.”

— Alix E. Harrow

238. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

239. “I may not be a witch, Miss Eastwood, but I’m quite the tolerable librarian” -Mr. Blackwell.”

— Alix E. Harrow

240. “She is a woman who understands the value of words, especially the ones they don’t want you to say.”

— Alix E. Harrow

241. “It was the smile of someone who has heard promises before, and knows better than to believe them. I knew what that was like, too.”

— Alix E. Harrow

242. “This time, when I push my face into the pool, when my water fills my mouth and floods my lungs, I am smiling. They will never sing my name.”

— Alix E. Harrow

243. “I wondered idly who had flinched from you before, and if you would prefer their thumbs or their ears in recompense.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

245. “In that moment he reminds me of Charm’s parents, or maybe my own: a person whose love is a burdensome thing, a weight dragging always at your ankles.”

— Alix E. Harrow

246. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

247. “I dream sometimes about a house I’ve never seen.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

250. “Beauty is a kind of vital, ferocious burning at a soul’s center that ignites everything it touches.”

— Alix E. Harrow