Top 280 Kim Harrison Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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?”

— Kim Harrison

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

— Kim Harrison

153. “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.”

— Kim Harrison

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

— Kim Harrison

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

— Kim Harrison

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

— Kim Harrison

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

— Kim Harrison

158. “You need a new hobby, Rachel. Something other than nasty little men with visions of world domination.”

— Kim Harrison

159. “I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.”

— Kim Harrison

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

— Kim Harrison

161. “My mother isn’t crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else’s reality.”

— Kim Harrison

162. “Good Lord, I thought, squinting at the bright glare of a late-July morning. No wonder I slept through this. It was noisy with shrieking birds, and already hot.”

— Kim Harrison

163. “Ivy rose to rinse the carafe. She leaned close to me, running the water to blur her words as she muttered, “What’s wrong with her? She’s crying over her tea.”

— Kim Harrison

164. “I am not going to live with regret for not having tried.”

— Kim Harrison

165. “I’m going back!” I shouted, standing to put some distance between us in case I was yanking her chain too hard and she came after me. “I’ll show him,” I said, waving an arm. “I’ll sneak in. I’ll steal his freaking glasses and mail them back to him in a freaking birthday card!”

— Kim Harrison

166. “I sat for a moment, figuring things out, then decided to stay there. If I was on the floor, I couldn’t fall down.”

— Kim Harrison

167. “I suddenly realized that a bunch of my friends needed babysitters and vowed to start screening my calls.”

— Kim Harrison

168. “I don’t want easy anymore. It’s worthless and the shine doesn’t last.”

— Kim Harrison

169. “It’s said that the reason the elves and demons began their war is because of a broken alliance,” he said, the world-weary damage to his face making him look wise. “I’ve always found it to be true – that the best of friends make the bitterest of enemies. Elves and demons, forever fighting. Who is to say that demons weren’t the slaves of elves first?”

— Kim Harrison

170. “Immediately Trent went back to mowing down those cookies, slowing when he realized I was staring at him. What are we up to now? Ten?”

— Kim Harrison

171. “I’ve found that when I’m having trouble solidifying a character or a scene, that music will often free my subconscious just that last little bit to allow me to move forward, and often it’s in a direction that I didn’t expect, but is 100 percent true to the character.”

— Kim Harrison

172. “Piscary killed people, but he didn’t have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish and to stop eating people. But Trent? He knew he was doing wrong, and he did it anyway.”

— Kim Harrison

173. “If you don’t say it’s wrong, then you’re telling them you agree.”

— Kim Harrison

174. “She was the most private person I knew, not even telling herself what her feelings were until she found a logical reason to justify them.”

— Kim Harrison

175. “You cannot thrash the person who makes you coffee. It’s a rule somewhere.”

— Kim Harrison

176. “We don’t forget, Rachel, and it’s not as if it was our ancestors who were betrayed. It was us.”

— Kim Harrison

177. “You are pathetic, Rache,” Jenks said, and my eyes darted to the top of the rack and I saw him standing there, hands on his hips and frowning at me, his wings a silver blur. “Rachel and Trent, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. No wait, it was a hospital room, and he had his hands on your ass and you had your tongue down his throat. I can see why you might be confused.”

— Kim Harrison

178. “I really didn’t have a choice. It wasn’t as if Kotex made a pad for this kind of a thing.”

— Kim Harrison

179. “Sheep are treated like sheep, users are used, and those who deserve more receive everything.”

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180. “Together we made our way from the service entrances in back to the front, Jenks shedding clothes and handing them to me to stuff in my bag every few yards. It was terribly distracting, but I managed to avoid running into the Dumpsters and recycling bins.”

— Kim Harrison

181. “That’s all kids want to know – that you love them.”

— Kim Harrison

182. “Jenks made a face as he levered himself up on the sill. “Much as I enjoy this horrific outpouring of estrogen, I’m going to go say good-bye to my wife. Let me know when you’re ready. I’ll be in the garden – probably next to the stink weed.”

— Kim Harrison

183. “Ms. Vampire Lady, you’re all wet.”

— Kim Harrison

184. “If you’re somewhere new every day, you feel no accountability. You don’t care who you hurt. You do what you want and damn the rest because you won’t be there for the fallout.”

— Kim Harrison

185. “There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.”

— Kim Harrison

186. “You got canned. Outsourced. Pink-slipped. Handed your walking papers. Given the go light. Slipped on the banana. Served the dead slug.”

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187. “Everything was going too well. Something had to be wrong.”

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188. “See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn’t screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good.”

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189. “So I’ve seen my boys do that a hundred times with the neighboring pixy girls. Give her their favorite seed and be too flustered to tell her what it was.”

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190. “Making a spell is easy. It’s trusting you did it right that’s hard.”

— Kim Harrison

191. “Try not to get enthralled, okay?”

— Kim Harrison

192. “I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.”

— Kim Harrison

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193. “Without warning he had become witness to something that stretched back through the eons, ties both elastic and enduring, surpassing death, surpassing life. She was his child. It was as simple as that and that complex.”

— Kim Harrison

194. “You eliminate everything, and whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the answer.”

— Kim Harrison

195. “Ivy?” I called as I went belowdecks, fear winding between my soul and reason when she didn’t answer. The silence ate away at my hope like bitter acid, drop by drop, breath by breath.”

— Kim Harrison

196. “Shouts of dismay rose as the red flesh splattered against the table. It was only a tomato, but one would think I was pulping a decaying heart by the noise the big, strong FIB officers were making.”

— Kim Harrison

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197. “It’s a cat. Boy, you couldn’t slip anything past me tonight.”

— Kim Harrison

198. “Five trolls in a dra-a-a-a-ag,′ the four-inch man sang from my shoulder. ‘Four purple condoms, three French ticklers, two horny vamps and a succubus in the snow.”

— Kim Harrison

199. “Not everything was legal, but nothing was immoral, and that was my guide these days.”

— Kim Harrison

200. “Numb, I took the perfectly browned puff. Okay. Let me see if I have this right. Al provokes me into defending myself. I nearly kill him. Then Newt tries to kill me, thinking I’m Ku’Sox. Al stops her, saving my life. And now we’re all going to have s’mores together?”

— Kim Harrison