Kim Harrison famous quotes

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.
-- Kim Harrison

#Giving #Romance #Return

I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff" pg. 4
-- Kim Harrison

#Down And #Computer

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

#Kids #College #Yummy

Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid.
-- Kim Harrison

#Stupid #Thinking #Rescue

I was cold, hungry, and in a hole in the ground. But at least I had my elven porn, damnit!
-- Kim Harrison

#Cold #Hungry #Holes

I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused.
-- Kim Harrison

#Stupid #Confused #Passion

There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a false god I’ve chased my entire life. One that cost me everything in the blind search for sensation. My entire existence amounted to nothing.
-- Kim Harrison

#Clever #Choices #Despair

Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.
-- Kim Harrison

#Disguise

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.
-- Kim Harrison

#Growing Up #Growing #Hard Love

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.
-- Kim Harrison

#Kindness #People #Fake

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.
-- Kim Harrison

#Hey #Want #Doe

And while seeing Trent in his tighty-whities would make my decade, I’d found out long ago that I couldn’t stay mad at a man wearing nothing but underwear. They looked so charmingly vulnerable.
-- Kim Harrison

#Men #Long #Mad

She smiled with the warmth of a penguin.
-- Kim Harrison

#Penguins #Warmth

Behind the fury, he was tired. He was tired of being hauled around and shoved into a little room. He was tired of trying for me and failing. And to have Minias know it, to be carted off under his leash…It was almost insulting. Maybe, if I gave Al a night of peace to lick his wounds and his pride, he would grant that same courtesy to me?
-- Kim Harrison

#Tired #Pride #Night

Get your hand off me,” I exclaimed, voice loud with misplaced anger as I yanked away from his grip. “I’m a professional, not some distraught girlfriend.” Well, I was that too, but I knew how to act at a crime scene.
-- Kim Harrison

#Girlfriend #Voice #Hands

No exclusive,” I said aloud, watching Al for his opinion and seeing him shake his head and hold his hands out in a “bigger” gesture. He didn’t even know how large the offer was, and he thought I could get one bigger.
-- Kim Harrison

#Hands #Als #Gestures

I felt sick. Buying Kisten’s and my safety from Piscary was so wrong. But it was either that or deal with a demon, and I’d rather keep my soul clean and let my morals get dingy.
-- Kim Harrison

#Safety #Sick #Soul

Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints.
-- Kim Harrison

#Pain #People #Bags

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

#Coffee #Screw Ups #Stuff

I am black,” she said, and a shudder rippled through me. “I am foul with a thousand years of demon curses. Don’t cross me or I will bring you and your house down. Rachel is the only clean thing I have, and you won’t sully her to further your high ideas.
-- Kim Harrison

#Ideas #Years #House

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.
-- Kim Harrison

#Ice #Eerie #Blood

Rachel,” came a raspy voice from the upper level, and both Trent and I turned. It was Quen, wrapped in a blanket as if it was a death shroud, the black-haired intern at his side, supporting him. His hair was plastered to his skull with sweat, and I could see him wavering as he stood there. “Don’t touch Trenton,” he said, his gravelly voice clear in the hush, “or I’m going to have to come down there…and smack you around.
-- Kim Harrison

#Sweat #Voice #Skulls

By Tink's diaphram...!
-- Kim Harrison

Ivy turned. 'He bit you on the neck?' she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. 'Oh, then it's got to be love. She won't let me bite her neck.
-- Kim Harrison

#Eye #Ivy #Serious

Rachel, you take her,” my mother said, clearly uncomfortable. “She might like you.” “No. Mom, no!” I protested, but it was my mother we were talking about, and it was either take the baby or have her hit the floor.
-- Kim Harrison

#Mom #Mother #Baby

A devious spark lit through Al, making me smile. One way. It costs too much, he said. “There’s no inflation in the ever-after, Al.” Call it a recession then. One way.
-- Kim Harrison

#Sparks #Too Much #Way

Two thousand miles, Rachel,” he said tightly, and I guessed that no, it didn’t violate the rules of whatever he was doing out here, because he sure wasn’t out here keeping the coven from attacking me. “I have eaten nothing but slop for two days and used facilities I wouldn’t let my dogs urinate in. And what about that couple in the RV outside Texas? I’ll never get that memory out of my head.” - Trent to Rachel
-- Kim Harrison

#Dog #Couple #Memories

This is about Ku’Sox, isn’t it,” I said, more of a statement than a question. He made a sighing groan, and I knew it was. “Then you’ve met,” he said, his thoughts clearly on the day-walking demon. “Funny, you don’t look dead.” His hand touched my chin, shifting it so he could see where I’d been pixed, the blisters itchy and red. “I’m surprised you survived the little designer dump. I nearly didn’t.
-- Kim Harrison

#Hands #Littles #Red

Shot me twice. I want my name, or I'm going to start charging you a fee every time I field something for you. And it's going to be expensive. I'm Park Place. Bud-dy." His red, goat-slitted eyes squinted at me from over his smoked glasses. "You're more like Oriental Avenue right now, dove. What are you on?
-- Kim Harrison

#Eye #Names #Glasses

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.
-- Kim Harrison

#Mirrors #Dumb #Lines

Be reasonable. I know you can be. If you try very, very hard.” - Al to Rachel
-- Kim Harrison

#Trying #Als

In a few hours, I’m going to be banished to the surface, my belongings raffled off as novelty items and my living space given to someone else—my reputation destroyed. I’d rather have your head than your soul at this point in my illustrious career.” - Al
-- Kim Harrison

#Space #Careers #Soul

Trent, do you have any weapons? Like a gun?” He looked at me in disgust. “You’re here to protect me,” he said as he closed the distance between us and stood beside me. “You didn’t bring a weapon?” “Yeah, I brought a weapon,” I snapped as I brought my splat gun out and aimed it at the ceiling where the sounds were coming from. “I just thought that since you’re a freaking murderer you might have a gun, too (...)
-- Kim Harrison

#Distance #Gun #Might

Trent looked me up and down. “Is that all you’re going to do?” My pulse quickened, and I gazed at the front of the basilica where the scratching was coming from. “I might have a snack later if nothing comes through those doors.
-- Kim Harrison

#Doors #Snacks #Pulse

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

#Sharks #People #Would Be

Do you have a sleeping bag?” I stared at him. “No. I lost it in the great salt-dip of ’06.
-- Kim Harrison

#Sleep #Bags #Salt

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.
-- Kim Harrison

#Laughter #Knowing #Doors

Shut up," I hissed. Ticked that he was taller than me, I stepped up onto a nearby coffee table. "I'm not in a cage anymore," I said, keeping enough presence of mind not to poke him in the chest with a finger. His face went startled, then cloric. "The only thing between your head and my foot becoming real close and personal right now is my questionable professionalism. And if you ever threaten me again, I'll slam you halfway across the room before you can say number-two pencil. Got it, you tall freak of nature?
-- Kim Harrison

#Real #Coffee #Two

You should be dead," he said, his voice full of wonder. "How is it that you're still alive?" Jaw clenched, I worked at his grip on me, trying to get my fingers between him and my wrist. "I work hard at it.
-- Kim Harrison

#Hard Work #Voice #Trying

I jerked to a stop at the door to my room. "What's wrong with my boots?" I said, thinking they were the only thing that I was going to keep on. Ah…the only thing from this outfit, not the only thing total.
-- Kim Harrison

#Thinking #Doors #Boots

I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.
-- Kim Harrison

#Years #Odd #Microwaves

Algaliarept varied its shape, sifting through my mind without me even knowing to choose what scared me the most. Once it had been Ivy. Then Kisten —until I had pinned him in an elevator in a foolish moment of vampire-induced passion. It's hard to be scared of someone after you've French-kissed him.
-- Kim Harrison

#Passion #Ivy #Knowing

Find Eloy. Smack his head into a wall, dance on his guts... I'd get creative. Spontaneous like.
-- Kim Harrison

#Wall #Creative #Spontaneous

I hate it when she tabs a line," Ivy whispered to Kisten in the corner. "You ever see anything freakier than that?" "You should see the face she makes when she—" "Shut up, Kist!" I exclaimed, my eyes flashing open to find him grinning at me.
-- Kim Harrison

#Hate #Eye #Ivy

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.
-- Kim Harrison

#Kings #Cat #Ignorance

Her elf is going to do just that,” he said, the red glow of the ever-after sun turning his hair auburn, almost as red as mine. “I did not work this hard at getting her to accept who she is to let you take your spoiled brat of a little-boy temper tantrum out on her. She stays on my side of the lines.
-- Kim Harrison

#Boys #Hair #Tantrums

I’ve got your back. Nothing alive will ever hurt you if I have breath in me. And nothing dead will hurt you if I don’t.” (Kisten)
-- Kim Harrison

#Hurt #Alive

Do you hurt uncle Kisten', he asked.(...) but Kisten beat me to it. “Only my heart, Audric,” he said. “Ms. Rachel is like the sun. See her sparkling there with the wind in her hair and fire in her eyes? You can’t catch the sun. You can only feel its touch on your face. And if you get too much of it, it burns you.
-- Kim Harrison

#Hurt #Uncles #Eye

I'll always be here," he said softly. "You can never fill my need, never drive me away, no matter how much you give me. The good or the bad. I'll always be hungry for emotion, always and forever, and I can feel you hurting. I can turn it to joy. If you'll let me.
-- Kim Harrison

#Hurt #Giving #Joy

Coffee. I could smell coffee. Coffee would make everything better.
-- Kim Harrison

#Coffee #Smell

Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard.
-- Kim Harrison

#Years #Grass #Thirty

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.
-- Kim Harrison

#Moving #Wings #Faces

You are the devil to talk to, Rachel," he said curtly. "Will you shut up and listen?
-- Kim Harrison

#Devil #Shut Up #Said

He grinned. “That’s because pixies are ever-after. We’re magic, baby. Just ask Matalina.
-- Kim Harrison

#Baby #Magic #Pixies

Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it.
-- Kim Harrison

#Beautiful #Sweet #Sleep

So much for playing nice.Tired, I let my eyes shut while they argued, hoping I didn’t die in the interim and make the problem moot. I wasn’t ever going to get my water. Ever.
-- Kim Harrison

#Nice #Tired #Eye

Can we get back to how we’re going to kill Nick? And what’s this about a dead body? You’d better start talking quick, Ivy, ’cause I’m not going to play hide-and-seek with a dead guy in my trunk. I did that in college, and I’m not going to do it again.” A smile quirked Ivy’s mouth. “Really?” she asked, and I flushed.
-- Kim Harrison

#College #Play #Ivy

Good God,” I whispered, sitting on the van’s cot and looking at my legs, horrified. They were hairy—not wolf hairy, but an I-couldn’t-find-my-razor-the-last-six-months hairy. Utterly grossed out, I took a peek at my armpit, jerking away. Oh, that’s just…nasty.
-- Kim Harrison

#Lasts #Months #Six

What was it with me and organized beatings, anyway?
-- Kim Harrison

#Organized

Okay, I like him,” I admitted. “But it takes more than a nice body, Jenks. Jeez, I do have a little depth. You’ve got a great body, and you don’t see me trying to get into your Fruit of the Looms.
-- Kim Harrison

#Nice #Trying #Fruit

Ah, Jenks? It’s not a lake, it’s a friggin’ freshwater ocean. Did you see the size of the tanker going under the bridge when we came into town? The wake from it could tip us. I’m not canoeing it unless your name is Pocahontas.
-- Kim Harrison

#Ocean #Lakes #Bridges

It’s a cat. Boy, you couldn’t slip anything past me tonight.
-- Kim Harrison

#Cat #Boys #Past

My eyes widened at the ball of orange fluff squeezing out from under the counter, blinking and stretching. I looked again, not believing. “It’s a cat,” I said, winning the Pulitzer prize for incredible intellect.
-- Kim Harrison

#Believe #Cat #Eye

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

#Running #Clothes #Together

I was having coffee with my bodyguard. I didn't expect to be hunting bad guys until later. Leather before sundown is tacky.
-- Kim Harrison

#Coffee #Hunting #Guy

A demon was asking me what I wanted. My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. “What do you want?” he said softly.
-- Kim Harrison

#Eye #Asking #Want

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

#Reading #Thought Provoking #Plot

Avoiding me, Quen downed a swallow of wine. "Trent is a fine young man," he said, watching the remaining wine swirl. "Yes... " I drawled, cautiously. "If you can call a drug lord and outlawed-medicine manufacturer a fine young man.
-- Kim Harrison

#Wine #Men #Medicine

You are your father's daughter,' he said, the skin around his eyes tightening. 'Trent is his father's son. Apart, you are annoying. Together...you have the potential to be a problem.
-- Kim Harrison

#Daughter #Father #Eye

Have you been sniffing fairy farts?
-- Kim Harrison

#Fairy #Fart

Anything worth having is going to be hard
-- Kim Harrison

#Anything Worth Having

Kisten, please don't leave me," I begged, and his eyes opened. "I'm cold," he said, fear rising in his blue eyes. I held him tighter. "I'm holding you. It's going to be okay." "Tell Ivy," he said with a gasp, clenching in on himself. "Tell Ivy that it wasn't her fault. And tell her that at the end... you remember love. I don't think... we lose our souls... at all. I think God keeps them for us until we... come home. I love you, Rachel." "I love you, too, Kisten," I sobbed, and as I watched, his eyes, memorizing my face, silvered, and he died.
-- Kim Harrison

#Love You #Eye #Home

Men,” she said as she took my arm and led me to the brightly lit room. “They forget we need to see the outcome of pain before we willingly put ourselves through it. How else would we suffer nine months to have a beautiful child? We already know we have guts.
-- Kim Harrison

#Beautiful #Children #Pain

He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk destroying everything he and his father had worked for.
-- Kim Harrison

#Father #Odds #Risk

He froze as the scent of her hair met him. It was touching his cheek,tickling him. I cant afford this, he thought, but he didnt move, watching her finger trace the new line. "He cracked my mirror,"she said, clearly angry.
-- Kim Harrison

#Moving #Mirrors #Hair

Your hair is a tangled mess,"he said, thinking he liked it that way, like a lion's mane.
-- Kim Harrison

#Thinking #Hair #Tangled

My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wasn't sealed, and her soul was bare to him, the scars of her tragic past and her triumphs over pain and her aching need to find her place. He just wanted to hold her to him and tell her it would be okay, that she had survived and was beautiful.
-- Kim Harrison

#Beautiful #Pain #Past

He just wanted to hold her to him and tell her it would be okay, that she had survived and was beautiful.
-- Kim Harrison

#Beautiful #Would Be #Okay

...Everyone had to eat, but eating people wasn't polite.
-- Kim Harrison

#People #Eating #Polite

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. And why I breathe alone.
-- Kim Harrison

#Pain #Sky #Wings

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.
-- Kim Harrison

#Years #Able #Witch

I will compensate all your one-inch, two-inch losses because I know how important every inch is to you aged, decrepit men.
-- Kim Harrison

#Loss #Men #Two

Dead Witch Walking is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati.
-- Kim Harrison

#Witch #Modern #Walking

Happy endings were never handed out. You had to fight for them, earn them with bruised hearts and sacrifices.
-- Kim Harrison

#Heart #Fighting #Sacrifice

We could've done this anywhere, but I wanted you to see me, to see this," he said, gesturing at the room. "I wanted you to know where I come from, what I am under the choices I make.
-- Kim Harrison

#Choices #Done #Rooms

How many mistakes can one life survive?
-- Kim Harrison

#Mistake

I sighed. "And what am I to you, Al?" "My maid," he said brightly. "Shall we do this?
-- Kim Harrison

#Maids #Als #Said

Did something happen to the sanctity of your church again?" My eye twitched. "Newt broke it so she could look in my closet." Again.
-- Kim Harrison

#Eye #Church #Looks

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.
-- Kim Harrison

#Men #Four #Inches

[Jenks]"I think you're all screwy in the head," he said when Bis nodded his encouragement. "But go ahead. I've got Quen's number in my phone. I'll call him if you both explode in a flash of black underwear and money so I won't have to fly all the way home.
-- Kim Harrison

#Encouragement #Home #Thinking

Al's voice was faint but resolute. "Stand up. Try to look sexy." "In a bedsheet?" I complained, running my hands down it. "How can I look sexy in a bedsheet?" He cleared his throat, and I grimaced. "Never mind.
-- Kim Harrison

#Sexy #Running #Voice

But I knew Nick. He was too ugly to die.
-- Kim Harrison

#Ugly

What are you doing now?" Al questioned "Seeing if your circumcision is gone? It is. My expression went blank, and Trent hesitated. He looked at me, and I put a hand to my mouth, face flaming. "Oh. My. God. Trent. I'm sorry" "Um" Trent said, clearly at a loss. "Call me tomorrow," Al said seriously, "I've got a curse that will take care of that. Unless you like the snake in a turtleneck look
-- Kim Harrison

#Sorry #Loss #Hands

His eyes met mine at the soft touch, and a chime seemed to shake the ley line, realigning the universe. He was mine.
-- Kim Harrison

#Eye #Lines #Chimes

Al's red eyes slid past me to Pierce. "Play?" he said, his voice dripping with interest. "Gordian Nathaniel Pierce's quirks are legendary. Why do you think I want the runt so badly? Size truly doesn't matter if you can do what he can." ~ Algaliarept, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison
-- Kim Harrison

#Eye #Past #Thinking

The demon's eyes flicked to mine, his smile widening. "This is Nicholas Gregory Sparagmos's room," he said, and my breath caught. "Delightful, just delightful! What are you doing in Nicky's room, Rachel? Ooooh, he summoned you to the West Coast, didn't he? Did you kill him? Good for you for taking care of that little problem! I should give you a bunny. Where is he? Stuffed in a closet?" ~ Algaliarept, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison
-- Kim Harrison

#Eye #Giving #Black

Yes, but . . .” She hesitated, her gaze finally coming to me. “I survived because I fell in love.” With you was unspoken.
-- Kim Harrison

#Love You #I Fell In Love With You

Apparently their numerous tattoos gave them protection against the cold as they had no coats.
-- Kim Harrison

#Tattoo #Coats #Cold

Don’t stereotype, Jenks. HAPA is an equal-opportunity hate group,” I said.
-- Kim Harrison

#Hate #Opportunity #Groups

She’s not much of a team player, more of a team yeller.
-- Kim Harrison

#Team #Player #Team Player