Top 280 Kim Harrison Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity – even if it had killed the cat – is king.”

— Kim Harrison

2. “Breaking rules isn’t bad when what you’re doing is more important than the rule itself.”

— Kim Harrison

3. “If it was up to me, I’d choose the hard path with the easy ending, not the easy path with the hard end.”

— Kim Harrison

4. “Knowing your limits is a strength, not a weakness.”

— Kim Harrison

5. “Growing up is hard. Otherwise everyone would do it.”

— Kim Harrison

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6. “You can trust me to keep my word. I always keep my word, promises or threats.”

— Kim Harrison

7. “Endings are not always bad. Most times they’re just beginnings in disguise.”

— Kim Harrison

8. “Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it’s a soft manipulator of influence and change.”

— Kim Harrison

9. “Anything worth having is going to be hard.”

— Kim Harrison

10. “It’s easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at.”

— Kim Harrison

11. “Listen before you draw your battle lines, lest you alienate your allies.”

— Kim Harrison

12. “I just want my name back so my life can go back to chaotic and weird instead of chaotic and desperate.”

— Kim Harrison

13. “You just click your heels and think there’s no place like being pwned.”

— Kim Harrison

14. “I could sit and watch nature documentaries with Jenks and the kids the rest of the night if I wanted. And trust me, watching a dozen pixies scream as a crocodile chomped on a zebra was something not to be missed. They invariably cheered for the crocodile, not the zebra.”

— Kim Harrison

15. “But why allow someone to make a bad choice when a little information might engender a better one? It’s hard to wake up and see the sun if the blinds are pulled.”

— Kim Harrison

16. “A clipboard and a hard hat could get you just about anywhere.”

— Kim Harrison

17. “I want to wake up beside you, see your curls on my pillow. I want a chance at falling in love.”

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18. “A devious spark lit through Al, making me smile. One way. It costs too much, he said. “There’s no inflation in the ever-after, Al.” Call it a recession then. One way.”

— Kim Harrison

19. “Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice and you can kiss your ass goodbye.”

— Kim Harrison

20. “Coffee. I could smell coffee. Coffee would make everything better.”

— Kim Harrison

21. “Who’s going to keep them from wiping us out species by species? Not me. We aren’t prepared for a new demographic of magic-using humans who are sadistic, power hungry, don’t like Inderlanders, and see genocide as an acceptable form of communication.”

— Kim Harrison

22. “I’ll wait for you under the bluebells. I’ll be there always.”

— Kim Harrison

23. “You had this all planned, didn’t you?? I accused. ‘Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?’ It wasn’t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried.”

— Kim Harrison

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24. “Money drives the world, but when everything falls apart to leave the underpinnings of our life bare to the scrutiny of critics and thieves, the only thing remaining, the only thing that can’t be taken away, is the love you hold for the people you care about.”

— Kim Harrison

25. “Go to sleep, baby, Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiment so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.”

— Kim Harrison

26. “The mistakes don’t matter. It’s what you do when you mess up that does.”

— Kim Harrison

27. “Nil tam difficile est quin quaerendo investigari possit.”

— Kim Harrison

28. “Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid.”

— Kim Harrison

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29. “The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty.”

— Kim Harrison

30. “Don’t fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don’t go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don’t flow.”

— Kim Harrison

31. “And while seeing Trent in his tighty-whities would make my decade, I’d found out long ago that I couldn’t stay mad at a man wearing nothing but underwear. They looked so charmingly vulnerable.”

— Kim Harrison

32. “Hate is all that keeps us alive when love is gone. You’re almost there. Not quite ready to let it go yet.”

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33. “Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard.”

— Kim Harrison

34. “His eyes met mine at the soft touch, and a chime seemed to shake the ley line, realigning the universe. He was mine.”

— Kim Harrison

35. “Her tiny hand gripped mine with a surprising warmth, and in a shocking wash of emotion, I felt everything I knew shift. The scent of cinnamon and baby powder hit me, and as my eyes widened, my heart melted, making room for her.”

— Kim Harrison

36. “You bet your Grannie’s Panties I will.”

— Kim Harrison

37. “Why aren’t you afraid of me? I’ve seen my death, and you’re not it.”

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38. “As the joke goes, you don’t have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away.”

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39. “I’d given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had died – finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in the coffin.”

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40. “Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints.”

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41. “A demon was asking me what I wanted. My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. “What do you want?” he said softly.”

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42. “Tinks titties Rache Jenks.”

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43. “Jenks kept me alive for two years through two death threats, a crazy banshee, and at least two serial killers. Its about time I return the favor! And if I can’t, then I can sit by his bed and hold his hand as he dies, ’cause I’ve had plenty of practice doing that, too!”

— Kim Harrison

44. “Algaliarept varied its shape, sifting through my mind without me even knowing to choose what scared me the most. Once it had been Ivy. Then Kisten – until I had pinned him in an elevator in a foolish moment of vampire-induced passion. It’s hard to be scared of someone after you’ve French-kissed him.”

— Kim Harrison

45. “Boots and leather jackets were strewn on her bed, and what looked like a new knife set. She’d taken a class last winter and was dying to try them out legally on someone.”

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46. “Somehow I found him. Somehow I found Al’s sarcastic thoughts, bitter and old. Tired, angry, bored. Alone.”

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47. “Happy endings were never handed out. You had to fight for them, earn them with bruised hearts and sacrifices.”

— Kim Harrison

48. “Like the end of a picnic, all the weenies will be roasted.”

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49. “She smiled with the warmth of a penguin.”

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50. “Trent and Ellasbeth did the nasty? Ewwww!”

— Kim Harrison