Top 280 Alix E. Harrow Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “I wanted to run away and keep running until I fell into some other, better world. And then I remembered the book.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

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253. “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

254. “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

255. “His eyes are empty as promises.”

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

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257. “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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258. “We’ll talk when I return.”

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

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260. “He loves pieces of her – the thunder-blue of her eyes, the full moon-glow of her breasts in the dark – but he never even met most of her. If he peeled back her pretty skin he’d find nothing soft or sweet at all, just busted glass and ashes and the desperate, animal will to stay alive.”

— Alix E. Harrow

261. “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

262. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

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

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265. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

266. “I could describe the way the smells of brine and sun have permeated every stone of every street, or the way the tide callers stand at their watchtowers and cry out the hour for their Cities. I could tell you of the many-shaped ships that crisscross the seas with careful writing stitched on their sails praying for good fortune and fair winds. I could tell you of the squid-ink tattoos that adorn the hands of every husband and wife, and of the lesser word-workers who prick words into flesh.”

— Alix E. Harrow

267. “You grew strong over those years, and fast, until your body was no longer something you wore but something you wielded, and Lord, what a weapon it became.”

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268. “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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269. “The air smells green and secret, surprising Beatrice with a rare pang of homesickness for Crow County; she supposes a person doesn’t have to love their home in order to miss it.”

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

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271. “The trick to being nothing is to want nothing.”

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

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273. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

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275. “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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276. “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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277. “But it was borrowed privilege and I knew it.”

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

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279. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

280. “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.”

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

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282. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow