Top 280 Alix E. Harrow Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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.”

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

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253. “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.”

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254. “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

255. “At this point, you’re thinking this story isn’t really about Doors, but about those more private, altogether more miraculous doors that can open between two hearts. Perhaps it is in the end – I happen to believe every story is a love story if you catch it at the right moment, slantwise in the light of dusk – but it wasn’t then.”

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256. “You people are always trying to invent reasons for things. Monsters only come for bad children, for loose women, for impious men. The truth is that the powerful come for the weak, whenever and wherever they like. Always have, always will.”

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257. “He doesn’t move or speak, but he doesn’t need to. I know his desires by the pace of his breath and the tilt of his shoulders, by the shape of his jaw and the heat of his gaze. I know him, and in knowing him I love him, and in loving him I cannot do as he wishes.”

— Alix E. Harrow

258. “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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259. “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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260. “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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261. “If you are too good and too quiet for too long, it will cost you. It.”

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

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263. “I would do worse things to find my way back to her.”

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264. “Because it’s easy to ignore a woman.” Juniper’s lips twist in a feral smile. “But a hell of a lot harder to ignore a witch.”

— Alix E. Harrow

265. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

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

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

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270. “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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271. “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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272. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

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

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

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276. “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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277. “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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278. “In the stories, it’s generally best to do whatever the hell the talking animal tells you.”

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

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280. “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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281. “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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282. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow