Top 350 Alix E. Harrow Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Ouroboran self-destruction.”

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202. “She felt rubbed raw, as if the grasses in the field had been sharp-edged, cutting away at that childish part of her that believed in adventure and magic.”

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203. “Such a small, brave act of kindness, repaid with suffering. I’d thought only sins were punished.”

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204. “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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205. “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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206. “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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207. “Of course this is the choice. It’s always this choice in the end – sacrifice someone else, trade one heart for another, buy your survival at the price of someone else’s. Save yourself but leave your sister behind.”

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208. “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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209. “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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210. “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.”

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211. “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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212. “What is magic anyway? If not a way when there is none.”

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213. “I believed it. Not in the half-pretending way that children believe in Santa Claus or fairies, but in the marrow-deep way you believe in gravity or rain.”

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214. “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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215. “I know that part of the story must be made up, because there’s no such thing as curses or cracks in the world, but maybe that’s all a good ghost story is: a way of handing out consequences to the people who never got them in real life.”

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216. “Perhaps I cannot believe words are entirely powerless, even here.”

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

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218. “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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219. “I’m a good traveler, ask Mr. Locke! I don’t interrupt, or touch things I oughtn’t, or speak to anyone, or wander off – ” Father’s brow crinkled into that puzzled V again. “Then why should you want to travel in the first place?” He shook his head.”

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220. “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.”

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221. “She came to us as any apocalypse does: slowly at first, and then all at once.”

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222. “Is this a fire-starting spell?” “It seems so, yes.” “Can I try it?” “Can you start a magical fire in a tower full of paper and leather?” Juniper considers. “What if it were a very small fire?”

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223. “I love him, and love wipes every ledger clean.”

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224. “Gwynne’s voice cut through yours, his brow still resting heavily on your forehead. “I would rather love a coward than mourn a legend.”

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225. “Word-magic comes at a cost, you see, as power always does. Words draw their vitality from their writers, and thus the strength of a word is limited by the strength of its human vessel. Acts of word-magic leave their workers ill and drained, and the more ambitious the working – the more it defies the warp and weft of the world as it is – the higher the toll.”

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226. “I’d spent enough time around rich and powerful men to know their affection for phrases like maintaining exclusivity and manufacturing demand through rarity.”

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227. “His eyes are empty as promises.”

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228. “If you like something, like it hard, because you don’t have a lot of time to waste.”

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

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

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231. “I’m sure you may bring whatever you please, Mr. Lee, so long as you bring magic also.”

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232. “Their teachers were desperate need and decades of rage; the hoarded words of their mothers and grandmothers; one another.”

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233. “We’ll talk when I return.”

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

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235. “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.”

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236. “Do you truly mean to die, just so the King can hang a new map behind his throne?”

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

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238. “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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239. “Doors introduce change. And from change come all things: revolution, resistance, empowerment, upheaval, invention, collapse, reformation – all the most vital components of human history, in short.”

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240. “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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241. “So the knight and the demon walked the world, never together, never apart, waiting for the day one of them would cease to be what they were.”

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242. “It felt like donning a suit of armor or sprouting wings, extending past the boundaries of myself; it felt an awful lot like love.”

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243. “She thinks how very tiresome it is to love and be loved. She can’t even risk her life properly, because it no longer belongs solely to her.”

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244. “The rules aren’t written down anywhere, but the important ones rarely are.”

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245. “Men like myself cannot see anything beyond our own pain; our eyes are inward-facing, mesmerized by the sight of our own broken hearts.”

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246. “You can tell the wickedness of a witch by the wickedness of her ways.”

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247. “Who knew writing a story would be so much work? I have a newfound respect for all those maligned dime novelists and romance writers.”

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248. “Or perhaps for all of them: for the little girls thrown in cellars and the grown women sent to workhouses, the mothers who shouldn’t have died and the witches who shouldn’t have burned. For all the women punished merely for wanting what they shouldn’t.”

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249. “Their love has hung above me like the sun, a burning brightness I could survive only if I never looked straight at it, never flew too close.”

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250. “Chosen? If you three were chosen, it was by circumstance. By your own need. That’s all magic is, really: the space between what you have and what you need.”

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