Top 280 Alix E. Harrow Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

253. “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

254. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

255. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

256. “But all the caring was beaten and burned out of her, and now she’s just hate with a heartbeat.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

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258. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

260. “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

261. “His eyes are empty as promises.”

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262. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

264. “She knows what’s coming better than her sisters. She knows that history digs a shallow grave, and that the past is always waiting to rise again.”

— Alix E. Harrow

265. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

267. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

268. “Someone along the line misled you as to your worth, Ms. Eastwood. I should quite like to give him a piece of my mind.”

— Alix E. Harrow

269. “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

270. “Mourning is a self-absorbed business;.”

— Alix E. Harrow

271. “Except I won’t le him, because I need him. And I might be a liar and a thief and a cheat, but I’ll walk barefoot through hell for what I need.”

— Alix E. Harrow

272. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

275. “History is a circle, and you people are always looking for the beginnings and endings of it.”

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276. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

277. “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?”

— Alix E. Harrow

278. “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

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

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280. “But Doors, like murder suspects in cheap mysteries, are often where you least expect them.”

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281. “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

282. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow