Top 280 Kim Harrison Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Relief spilled into me. He wanted to live. He just didn’t know how.”

— Kim Harrison

102. “His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he’d tell me Ivy had it.”

— Kim Harrison

103. “Minias smiled. Great. Another charming demon. I sort of prefer the insane ones.”

— Kim Harrison

104. “Just so you know, I’ve trusted you since camp.”

— Kim Harrison

105. “Nothing is so hard that it can’t be found by searching.”

— Kim Harrison

106. “Ford put a hand to his head. “Back up. Back up!” he cried. “You’re too close.” Heart pounding, I looked at the eight feet between us and pressed into the fridge. “I think he meant for the ghost to back up,” Jenks said dryly.”

— Kim Harrison

107. “Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies,” Jenks whispered, empty and bereft. “My word silent, though I should howl. Muffled by death, my wings can’t lift me high enough to find you. I feel you within. Unaware of my pain. Not knowing why I mourn.” He lifted his eyes to mine, a glimmer of tears showing. “And why I breathe alone.”

— Kim Harrison

108. “I pushed him away, catching Lee’s awe that I was not only standing with a demon outside a circle, but that Al was treating me like an equal. Or maybe a favorite pet, I amended as Al caught me when I started to tilt.”

— Kim Harrison

109. “Confused, I asked, “The coven’s what?” “Plumber,” Ivy said, looking pale as she leaned on Glenn. “You know. Stops leaks?” Oh goodie. I’m a leak.”

— Kim Harrison

110. “The demon had trouble remembering what she was doing, but she was powerful, sort of the crazy Wendy of the lost lord-of-the-flies boys.”

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111. “Tagged by a whiny little vamp. Rache, take this sword and stick it in me. Just go and stick it in me. I’m a back-drafted, crumpled-winged, dust-caked, dew-assed excuse of a backup. Worthless as a pixy condom. Taken down by my own partner. Just tape my ass shut and let me fart out my mouth.”

— Kim Harrison

112. “Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It’s a lack of resources.”

— Kim Harrison

113. “With all the conveniences and clean simplicity we lived in, people had lost a lot of polish.”

— Kim Harrison

114. “Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.”

— Kim Harrison

115. “Jenks made a move to follow, probably forgetting he didn’t have wings anymore. He leaned forward and fell to the floor, face first. “Jenks!” I shouted when he hit with a dull smack and started swearing.”

— Kim Harrison

116. “I wish I could say I write 9-5. It’s usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.”

— Kim Harrison

117. “I thought Trent should get over his pixy paranoia and admit he had an eerie attraction to them, like every other pure-blood elf I’d met. So he liked pixies. I liked double-crunch ice cream, but you didn’t see me avoiding it in the grocery store.”

— Kim Harrison

118. “I glanced at the pain charms draped around my neck, thinking I looked like a drunken prostitute at Mardi Gras.”

— Kim Harrison

119. “Jenks squinted at me, and when Trent nodded, the pixy gestured sourly to Bis to get on with it. A four inch man ruled us all.”

— Kim Harrison

120. “You think Ivy’s a planner? She has nothing on a motivated elf with too much money.”

— Kim Harrison

121. “Hey, ah, does anyone want a cookie or something? Oh yeah. A cookie. That would make everything better. Dunked in a shot of tequila, maybe? Or better yet, just the bottle? Yeah, that ought to do it.”

— Kim Harrison

122. “I want one thing I can point to and say, ‘that is good, and it’s a part of me.’”

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123. “She was only a year old, but elves grew up fast. Not like witches, who Jenks swore were not able to be on their own until they were thirty. Ahem.”

— Kim Harrison

124. “Was I a fool to trust, or a wiser person finding the capacity to forgive?”

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125. “It had made me strong, but it had left me flawed.”

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126. “Revenge is a tricky beast. Her claws face both ways. I don’t mind a few more scars. They’ll be unnoticed among the rest.”

— Kim Harrison

127. “Every time you disturb reality, nature has to balance it out. The black on your soul isn’t evil, it’s a promise to make up for what you have done. It’s a mark, not a death sentence. And you can get rid of it given time.”

— Kim Harrison

128. “Dead Witch Walking is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati.”

— Kim Harrison

129. “I have to save the world tomorrow, and I don’t even know what I’m going to wear yet. – Rachel Morgan.”

— Kim Harrison

130. “Maybe I could be friends with a ghost. I wouldn’t be able to kill him.”

— Kim Harrison

131. “I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.”

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132. “I’d never seen a man who could outshop me, but Jenks was a master.”

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133. “Living a lie tore at one’s being and leaked out in the oddest of places.”

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134. “I was cold, hungry, and in a hole in the ground. But at least I had my elven porn, damnit!”

— Kim Harrison

135. “Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.”

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136. “Rachel, you summon demons. You’re good at it. Get over it, then find a way to make it work for you. It’s not going to go away.”

— Kim Harrison

137. “Of course I’m shielding her, you broken feather!”

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138. “I turned back to the mirror, seeing that there were no lines on it. It was empty. “What happened to my mirror?” I said, bewildered. Then realizing that I was looking at the back of the dumb thing, I swore and turned it over.”

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139. “That’s why I want you there, he said. You’re unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people.”

— Kim Harrison

140. “I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall.”

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141. “Your welcome means more to me, Ivy Alisha Tamwood, than a thousand souls. Watching Rachel work is a wonder of one catastrophe after another.”

— Kim Harrison

142. “I can’t do easy anymore. It’s too hard on my soul.”

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143. “You look like the vamp who bled the cat.”

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144. “We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen. Nothing did. “This isn’t good,” Quen said. I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical.”

— Kim Harrison

145. “The cookie maker needs someone to look out for him.”

— Kim Harrison

146. “I would have sworn fairies were too big to fit into a frog’s mouth.”

— Kim Harrison

147. “Wayde yelled, and I hit him again, adrenaline pulling a scream of outrage from me. He went quiet, and I held my breath to make sure I could hear him breathing. I suppose I could have used my magic on him, but this was a lot more satisfying.”

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148. “Humans were so ignorant, taking for granted what they received from each other, never knowing the energy they passed between themselves.”

— Kim Harrison

149. “Memories of ice and Trent surfaced, and I wrapped my arms around my middle. I had saved him, and he had saved me. What was wrong with us?”

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150. “You think my kids just popped out of the ground?”

— Kim Harrison