Top 280 Alix E. Harrow Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “I see her choosing now whether to make her love into a cage or a key.”

— Alix E. Harrow

252. “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

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

— 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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

256. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

258. “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

259. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

261. “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

262. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

264. “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

265. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

268. “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

269. “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

270. “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

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

— Alix E. Harrow

272. “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

273. “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

274. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

275. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

276. “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

277. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

278. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

279. “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.”

— Alix E. Harrow

280. “If you are too good and too quiet for too long, it will cost you. It.”

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow

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

— Alix E. Harrow