Top 70 Thea Harrison Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Ah, well. You can’t fix stupid. And you can’t heal crazy.”

— Thea Harrison

2. “If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power to tell that story the way you want to.”

— Thea Harrison

3. “I will never leave you. I will never let you go. I will not let you fall, or fail. I will always come for you if you leave, always find you if you’re lost. Always.” She.”

— Thea Harrison

4. “He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.”

— Thea Harrison

5. “Been there, done that. I’m sure I’ve got a T-shirt somewhere to prove it.”

— Thea Harrison

6. “Hope and carbohydrates were a powerful combination.”

— Thea Harrison

7. “I could use a hug.”

— Thea Harrison

8. “It sucked so bad she might as well put a gun to her head and pull the trigger. Except she didn’t own a gun because she didn’t like them. Besides, pulling the trigger on a gun was pretty final. She had issues with commitment and she was so freaking dead anyway, so why bother.”

— Thea Harrison

9. “You sure you weren’t too clever for him?” Eva asked. “Don’t get me wrong, I know he’s bright. He’s Lord of the Wyr and all, but he is still just a man.”

— Thea Harrison

10. “Your music hurts, the way sunshine hurts when you’ve existed for a long time in darkness.”

— Thea Harrison

11. “Shoulda, woulda, coulda. They were the Three Stooges of regret. All they were good for was saying whoop-whoop-whoop and smacking each other over the head.”

— Thea Harrison

12. “Why use a sledgehammer when a butterfly net will suffice?”

— Thea Harrison

13. “Craig, I asked Braden how he and his wife made the kind of commitment they had, when we live such dangerous lives. He said, the love has got to be bigger than everything else. The isolation, the separation, the danger. When the love is bigger than all that – you just do it. You pay the price in uncertainty and sometimes bereavement, because every moment you’re together is worth the cost.” “What.”

— Thea Harrison

14. “Death was a thief that always wore a mask. Accident, disease, stillbirths, old age, natural causes, war, murder. It existed in the shivering silence between tolls of a bell. It stole everything away while it left its mark, a dark knowledge that lingered at the back of smiling eyes, a hesitation between thought and action in times of danger, a heaviness that tunneled wormholes into happy memories.”

— Thea Harrison

15. “I did not know I needed grace until I met you.”

— Thea Harrison

16. “She was the most dangerous woman he had ever met, and she didn’t yet know a fraction of what she was truly capable of.”

— Thea Harrison

17. “She put her hands to her face and rubbed, then dug her fingers into her scalp, trying to massage some life back into her tired brain.”

— Thea Harrison

18. “He stared at her neck. Realization pulsed. He was looking at the bite he had given her. A hard length was growing against her hip. “So, is that your long, scaly, reptilian tail, or are you just happy to see me?” No, she did not just say that. Did she?”

— Thea Harrison

19. “Watching him walk away, she considered his laconic attitude and reluctant decency, and she thought she might be crushing on him just a little. Two.”

— Thea Harrison

20. “Were you her lover? Did she cheat on you?” He paused. Rhoswen glared at him but remained silent. He said, “I’m gonna take a wild guess and say that’s a no. Did she really have to get rid of her servant just because I came along? Wait, here it comes again: no.”

— Thea Harrison

21. “You laughed and were happy. I was watching you. I understand the stories your face tells so much better than I did before. I know what your happiness looks like now.”

— Thea Harrison

22. “I don’t understand how we got to this place. I didn’t even like you when I first met you.”

— Thea Harrison

23. “No wonder Dragos’s lawyers were so rich. He was a litigator’s wet dream.”

— Thea Harrison

24. “How exactly does one break the news to her husband that she’s standing in a closet with the dead body of one of their dinner guests?”

— Thea Harrison

25. “You did not walk away from those you loved. You fought for them, always, with everything you had, even if it meant fighting the long fight, and staying on the hardest, quietest, most difficult course.”

— Thea Harrison

26. “I just had a dream.” “About what?” “It’s hard to describe. It was very dreamy.”

— Thea Harrison

27. “Sophie don’t do nothing Sophie don’t want.”

— Thea Harrison

28. “He had come for her. He had promised everything was going to be okay, and he had come for her, and he had looked so crazy-sexy. No, monstrous. No, sexy. Oh damn.”

— Thea Harrison

29. “Besides, pulling the trigger on a gun was pretty final. She had issues with commitment.”

— Thea Harrison

30. “Honestly, what had she done? She had taken one look at a pretty face and forgotten everything her mom had taught her about survival. It sucked so bad she might as well put a gun to her head and pull the trigger. Except she didn’t own a gun because she didn’t like them. Besides, pulling the trigger on a gun was pretty final. She had issues with commitment and she was so freaking dead anyway, so why bother.”

— Thea Harrison

31. “With her face tilted up to his, the subtle edge of moonlight touched along the edge of one high cheekbone, the tilted edge of one eye, and those beautiful, enticing lips. Obeying an impulse he couldn’t put into words, he lowered his head and covered her mouth with his.”

— Thea Harrison

32. “Aryal whispered, “If I start slapping people, I might not be able to stop.”

— Thea Harrison

33. “A slightly crazed expression came into her eyes. She hit him again, harder.”

— Thea Harrison

34. “This was both creepy and... thoughtful.”

— Thea Harrison

35. “Trying to get pregnant is one of my very favorite things to do. We’ll have to practice frequently, and with great enthusiasm.”

— Thea Harrison

36. “I treasure the breaths we take together, and I am stricken with envy for them, for they mingle closer and more completely than our bodies can join. Your beauty makes me fall out of the sky and want to stay tethered to earth. Let me follow you everywhere, my love, through the lightest moments, and the darkest. I can only be happy if we share all our pain. Don’t leave me, I beg of you, for my spirit will go with you, and then I will truly become clay. He.”

— Thea Harrison

37. “It was more necessary to him than redemption. She could break him. Him. In their year together, the surprise had still not left him. He had lived through cataclysms.”

— Thea Harrison

38. “And we will both sit on the children to make sure they remain safe.”

— Thea Harrison

39. “Her music ran through him with electric energy, more joyous than anything he could remember and more painful than silver.”

— Thea Harrison

40. “Dragos angled his head and watched her leave. He still didn’t like that image of her walking away. Someday you will trust me. Then you will tell me what more there was to the dream and why you were so shaken. You will not be afraid of me and you will tell me all your secrets. And then you will be mine.”

— Thea Harrison

41. “London was littered with social clubs and houses of chance, but Malfeasance was not just any gaming hell. It was located in the most notorious part of London and, Graydon had heard, was run by a pariah Djinn named Malphas.”

— Thea Harrison

42. “The love has got to be bigger than everything else. The isolation, the separation, the danger. When the love is bigger than all of that – you just do it. You pay the price in uncertainty and sometimes bereavement, because every moment you’re together is worth the cost.”

— Thea Harrison

43. “Her revenge to-do list kept getting longer and longer.”

— Thea Harrison

44. “Bravery wasn’t facing something you knew you could vanquish, he thought. Bravery was facing the impossible and saying, what’s next?”

— Thea Harrison

45. “She shook her head. “I don’t know who the hell you are,” she told the woman in the mirror. “But you look mighty cute.”

— Thea Harrison

46. “Sometimes at Christmas she would slip into neighborhoods just like this one. She would walk along the streets and peer into windows at family and holiday gatherings, and marvel at the shiny gold, crimson and green decorated trees covered with tinsel and twinkling colored lights, while she wondered what it must be like to experience the beauty of such an ordinary, unattainable life.”

— Thea Harrison

47. “There was no surviving some loves. No matter what happened to the love affair, whether it flourished or failed, those loves struck mortal blows one carried for the rest of one’s life.”

— Thea Harrison

48. “And if he had to do it all over, he would do it again. In the deepest privacy of his soul, down at the bottom of a well where no one else could hear him, the part of him that had weighed life and death decisions over the last several hundred years took her life and weighed it against all else. –.”

— Thea Harrison

49. “He also ate every scrap of the cold meat she had cooked for him, and good gods, it was pretty awful. Somehow she had managed to wreck the simple task of browning chicken in a skillet. The outside was charred black, and the inside oozed juice that was still pink.”

— Thea Harrison

50. “He was the darkest of voices inside her head, the Night-kind King, and when he turned his gift of persuasion onto her, she wanted to take her soul out of her body and hand it to him.”

— Thea Harrison