Top 280 Kim Harrison Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.”

— Kim Harrison

152. “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

153. “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

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

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

— Kim Harrison

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

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

— Kim Harrison

158. “Al had tried to kill me. Okay, he’d tried to kill me a couple of times, but this last time I think he’d really meant it.”

— Kim Harrison

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

— Kim Harrison

160. “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

161. “All right, all right! Don’t lose your panties. No, wait. You don’t have any, do you?”

— Kim Harrison

162. “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

163. “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?”

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164. “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

165. “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?”

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166. “I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.”

— Kim Harrison

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

— Kim Harrison

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

— Kim Harrison

169. “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

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

— Kim Harrison

171. “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

172. “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

173. “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.”

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

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

— Kim Harrison

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

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177. “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

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

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

— Kim Harrison

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

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

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184. “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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185. “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

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

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187. “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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188. “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.”

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189. “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

190. “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

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

— Kim Harrison

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

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193. “The world was going to change again. I should have worn nicer shoes.”

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194. “Happy endings were never handed out. You had to fight for them, earn them with bruised hearts and sacrifices. And I just couldn’t do it right now. It hurt too much when it fell apart.”

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195. “Listen to me, you broken-fanged, moss-wiped excuse for a back-drafted blood bag!” Jenks said, a silver-edged red dust slipping from him.”

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196. “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.”

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

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198. “She called it my purse of delight.”

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199. “When everything seems to impact everything and there’s no easy answer, I ask myself: Will this decision take me closer or farther from you? And then it’s so clear. Even if it doesn’t make sense at the time.”

— Kim Harrison

200. “I popped open the hard case and carefully put the so-ugly-they-could-work-as-birth-control glasses on.”

— Kim Harrison