Top 280 Kim Harrison Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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.”

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102. “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.”

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103. “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.”

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104. “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.”

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

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106. “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.”

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107. “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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108. “Rose to Rachel: You cry you get angry then you do something about it.”

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

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

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111. “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.”

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112. “Death and blood didn’t turn on a vampire. Fear and the chance to take blood did. There was a difference.”

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

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114. “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.”

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

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116. “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.”

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117. “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.”

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

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119. “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.”

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120. “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.”

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121. “I cannot stay,” he lied for me, eyes averted. “I’m only going to be here for a time, then leave you.” His gaze met mine. “And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.”

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122. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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130. “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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131. “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.”

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

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133. “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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134. “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.”

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

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

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

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139. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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146. “For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.”

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147. “I wanted to make decisions on who I loved by who completed me, made me feel good about myself. Who I could love freely and help make a better person by just being there.”

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148. “I’m a pixy, Rachel. I may look all tough and stuff, but I got wings, and I know infatuation when I see it.”

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149. “What was it with me and organized beatings, anyway?”

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150. “Oh, I’m sorry. Did I interrupt some sort of dominance foreplay?”

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