Top 280 Alix E. Harrow Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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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202. “Now she wants so much more than merely to survive.”

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

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

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206. “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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207. “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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208. “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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209. “You woke panting and sweating, your body fighting battles you’d already won or hadn’t yet fought.”

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

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

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212. “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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213. “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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214. “In the stories, it’s generally best to do whatever the hell the talking animal tells you.”

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

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216. “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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217. “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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218. “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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219. “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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220. “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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221. “It’s just the way people work. You tell them a story, and they require an ending.”

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222. “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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223. “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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224. “We’ll talk when I return.”

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

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

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

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229. “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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230. “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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231. “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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232. “Surviving is often a matter of knowing when you’re beat.”

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

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

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

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

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239. “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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240. “The trick to being nothing is to want nothing.”

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241. “The wind rises. It rushes through the square, midnight-cool and mischievous, fluttering the pages of Miss Cady Stone’s notes. It smells wild and sweet, half-familiar, like Mama Mags’s house on the solstice. Like earth and char and old magic. Like the small, feral roses that bloomed in the deep woods.”

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242. “She was young and graceful and had the sort of face that launches ships and eats hearts.”

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243. “But I remind you that he was merely a man. Whereas we” – she looks over her spectacles at Agnes and gives her a very small smile – “are witches.”

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244. “Being a perfectly unique specimen is lonely, as it turns out.”

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245. “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.”

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246. “Even my own writings – so damnably powerless – may have just enough power to reach the right person and to tell the right truth, and change the nature of things.”

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247. “I am terrified and I am terrible. I am fearful and I am something to be feared.”

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

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249. “She accumulated the dust of other worlds on her skin like ten thousand perfumes, and left constellations of wistful men and impossible tales in her wake.”

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250. “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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