Top 280 Kim Harrison Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “You eliminate everything, and whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the answer.”

— Kim Harrison

202. “This is a witchocracy, not a democracy. Clear?”

— Kim Harrison

203. “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.”

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

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205. “I may be a pawn,” I said as I locked my shaking knees. “But I’ve been to the other side and survived the trip back and can move like a queen.”

— Kim Harrison

206. “Teaching an adolescent pixy and teenage gargoyle how to make explosives might not be such a good idea. But hell, he’d learned when he was five.”

— Kim Harrison

207. “You are the devil to talk to, Rachel,” he said curtly. “Will you shut up and listen?”

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208. “Adjustment? She called that an adjustment? How about I adjust her right out of existence?”

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209. “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

210. “They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission.”

— Kim Harrison

211. “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

212. “The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me.”

— Kim Harrison

213. “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

214. “Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.”

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

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216. “Even a superhero needs a place to be normal.”

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217. “I want an expresso. Black. But give me the domestic blend. That Turkish crap gives me the runs for a week. – Jenks.”

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218. “Setting my spiced cider down, I put my elbows on my knees and sighed. I loved the solstice, and not just for the food and parties. Cincinnati dropped all of its lights from midnight until sunrise, and it was the only time I ever saw the night sky as it was supposed to be. Anyone thieving during the blackout was dealt with hard, curtailing any problems.”

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219. “I liked my kitchen. No, let me rephrase. I loved my kitchen with the loyalty of a bulldog to his favorite bone.”

— Kim Harrison

220. “I like attics. They’re as peaceful as God’s church. Alone and apart, but a body can hear everything. The past stacked up like forgotten memories, but with a small effort, brought down and enjoyed again.”

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221. “No,” she said firmly. “I want you to stay when I go. Break tradition again, my love, and burn me alone in the home we built. I don’t want you with me. You aren’t done. You see too far ahead. You need to make the world in your thoughts a real one that our children can fly in.” – Matalina to Jenks.”

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222. “I hadn’t wished for Trent in my life, but now that I had him, I was more confused, more heartbroken than I’d ever been. Trent was willing to sacrifice everything for me, but I didn’t know if I could let him.”

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223. “I reached to push my hair out of my eyes, finding someone had tied a knot it in. My face screwed up in anger as I realized it was a HAPA knot. Real funny.”

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224. “Learning to understand those you hate and fear is harder. I.”

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225. “I hate it when people use stuff and don’t replace.”

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226. “Sure, he had a wife and fifty-four kids, but he looked like a college freshman. A yummy college freshman majoring in Oh-my-god-I-gotta-get-me-some-of-that.”

— Kim Harrison

227. “My God, you have beautiful hair in the firelight,” he said softly, and I blinked. “It’s like your thoughts, all cinnamon and wild untamed. I’ve always liked your hair.”

— Kim Harrison

228. “Join us next time for Days of the Undead when Rachel learns her long lost brother is really a crown prince from outer space.”

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229. “Yeah, well, if he tries, I’m going to burn his office down to his red stapler.”

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230. “The ever-after is like a drop of time that got knocked out, sitting alone by itself with no past behind it to push it forward and no future to pull it along. It’s hanging to us by the ley lines, sort of. Your circles aren’t made up of differing realities, they’re made up of the stretchy stuff that’s holding us and the ever-after together, keeping the ever-after from vanishing like it should.”

— Kim Harrison

231. “All I’d have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent’s backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right.”

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232. “What in Tink’s contractual hell are you doing here?”

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233. “Shifting Lucy to his shoulder, he began to rock without moving his feet, a movement new to him but as old as fire and having the grace of 1000 years.”

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234. “The shushing of the waves was the heartbeat of the world, ever present, seldom noticed, and linking every moment together from before there was life to now.”

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235. “What in Tink’s knickers do you think you’re doing!”

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236. “I opine-I think you’re a woman of your world,′ he said from the far end of the couch. ‘I would have a hard time seeing you pressed and powdered, dreading a life of servitude under the name of marriage. You’d die in that mold. I like you as you are, fiery and ill tempered.”

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237. “The runt will have a juice box.′ He turned to Pierce. ‘It will make you big and strong, won’t it, little fella.”

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238. “By the light coming from the patio, it looked a shade after sunrise. I had to stop waking up at this hour. It was just insane.”

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239. “Who in hell bought a mug with blue butterflies on it!” I shouted, slamming it on the counter beside the stove. “We are serious people doing serious things! I don’t have time for butterflies!”

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240. “And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love, that trust.” His faultless blue eyes never blinked, and I held my breath. “It can be beautiful, Rachel, when there is trust and love. No one is bound. No one loses his or her will. No one becomes less. Both become more than they can be alone. But it is so rare, so beautiful when it happens.”

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241. “Winona!” I said, quashing my first initial panic at finding a horned, tailed, demonic creature smiling at me.”

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242. “As I watched, another pizza went out, the car lurching into the street and speeding away with the quickness that told of a large engine. Pizza drivers have made good money since they successfully lobbied for hazard pay.”

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243. “I’d give anything if you’d kiss me.” I said. “I mean,” I said when he tilted his head to look at me, his eyes wide in shock, “I’ve kissed guys before. It’s like a handshake these days,” I lied, just wanting to know what his lips on mind would feel like. “Almost required if you’re leaving.”

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244. “I’ve got her okay.” Jenks’s angular face was pale, making him look as if he was going to pass out. “Jax, it’s cold out. Get in Ms. Morgan’s purse until we get to the motel.” “Hell no!” Jax said, shocking me as he lit on my shoulder. “I’m not going to ride in no purse. I’ll be fine with Rex. Tink’s diaphragm, Dad. Where do you think I’ve been sleeping for the last four days?” “Tink’s diaph – ” Jenks sputtered. “Watch your mouth, young man.” This was not happening.”

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245. “Just what I need. My own personal shoulder devil, wearing black and smelling like the Garden of Eden.”

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246. “Falling in love was the easiest thing in the world to do. Why was it always so hard for me to survive it?”

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247. “But they’re dying. The church, I mean,” she added as I met her eyes. “No new members. It’s sad, really. The.”

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248. “Easy is tasteless and bland.”

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249. “Al leaned close, voice dangerous as he whispered, “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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250. “My kids know you can make it if you take risks and work hard. That we can work in the system you lunkers set up. That’s all a parent really needs to give his child. That, and how to love someone with all your soul.”

— Kim Harrison