Top 100 Kim Harrison Quotes
#2. I really didn't have a choice. It wasn't as if Kotex made a pad for this kind of a thing.
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#3. Tagged by a whiny little vamp. Rache, take this sword and stick it in me. Just go and stick it in me. I'm a back-drafted, crumpled-winged, dust-caked, dew-assed excuse of a backup. Worthless as a pixy condom. Taken down by my own partner. Just tape my ass shut and let me fart out my mouth.
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#4. I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.
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#5. Trent had been ready to kill that man to protect me. I had seen it in his eyes. I was damn sure I wasn't comfortable with that - not when I knew how badly he wanted to differentiate himself from his father.
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#6. Just so you know, I've trusted you since camp.
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#7. Jenks kept me alive for two years through two death threats, a crazy banshee, and at least two serial killers. Its about time I return the favor! And if I can't, then I can sit by his bed and hold his hand as he dies, 'cause I've had plenty of practice doing that, too!
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#8. Alarmed, I looked at him, then the road, then at him again.
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#9. What do you want me to do?
Marry you?
People grow up! Move away! I'm going to college, not the moon!
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#10. Kisten probably has one in here," she muttered, then turned with a tube of what looked like lipstick. "Ta-da!"
Ta-da, huh?
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#12. It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen
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#13. But why allow someone to make a bad choice when a little information might engender a better one? It's hard to wake up and see the sun if the blinds are pulled.
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#14. I only snatched him to get your attention," I said. "Now that I've got it, this is what I want."
"Damn my dame!" Al shouted, hands raised to the ceiling. "I knew it! Not another list!
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#15. The Uncommon Stupidity charge agents me be dropped."
My shock at the "Honorably Ass-kisser" comment was pushed away by the thought of a law agents uncommon stupidity and wondered how we could get one.
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#16. Coffee. I could smell coffee. Coffee would make everything better.
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#17. His eyes met mine at the soft touch, and a chime seemed to shake the ley line, realigning the universe.
He was mine.
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#18. If I give a book as a gift, it is invariably a children's book with beautiful artwork and a simple text. I adore the feel of them, the care taken in the artwork, and the high visual stimulation that sets off the simple but often powerful message the text conveys.
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#19. Al was cruel, vindictive, angry, elegant, powerful. He gave me strength, he gave me wisdom, not only about magic, but about myself. He was a lot like Trent, only harsher around the edges.
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#20. Treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't
until you do understand.
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#21. 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
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#22. Ate a chip, then went to the fridge for the dip. Everything was better with sour cream and chives.
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#23. Maybe money couldn't buy happiness, but it could get you a table that looked like the back end of a deep-sea fishing vessel.
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#24. A compassion swirled form nowhere in the high I was lost in. She needed me. She needed me to accept her for what she was. And when I realized that I had it within myself to give her at least this small part of me, the last of my fear melted away.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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?
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#27. 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.
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#28. He's my bodyguard," I said tightly. "You know that. I don't trust you. I should walk away from this, but I'm here, and I'm going to take a look. He stays. Got a problem, take it up with my mom.
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#29. There's someone out there who's suited for you. Someone who has enough strength or knowledge to keep themselves safe. I bet there's a foxy young man looking right now for a woman who can take care of herself and thinking he can't have anyone either.
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#31. Be reasonable. I know you can be. If you try very, very hard. - Al to Rachel
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#32. Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.
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#33. I didn't mean now," he protested. "I'm not going to raise the child. I'm having enough trouble with Rachel.
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#34. My pulse slowed, and as Jenks charmed the ladies behind the counter into flustered goo, I tried to look cool and professional among the plastic toys and paper hats. It wasn't going to happen, so I tried for dangerous. I think I managed cranky ...
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#35. 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.
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#36. Past him was Trent, a tired look on his face. Holding my borrowed shawl close, I watched Jonathan as I slid out. "Why, thank you, Jon," I said brightly, "you freaking bastard."
Trent ducked his head, hiding a smile.
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#37. Ready, Rachel? I'd like your opinion on the lab that was broken into." His eyes flicked past us to the closed nursery door before coming back to us, his smile fading as he noticed Ceri's tension. I was such a coward. "You want me to look at a crime scene? That's a switch," I said
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#38. Jenks's wings tickled my neck, and I shivered.
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#39. I was cold, hungry, and in a hole in the ground. But at least I had my elven porn, damnit!
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#40. If you don't say it's wrong, then you're telling them you agree.
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#41. 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?
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#42. I am not going to live with regret for not having tried.
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#43. Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies.
Jenks (Black Magic Sanction)
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#45. Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with it, as long as both people agree never to bring it up again.
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#46. The world was going to change again. I should have worn nicer shoes.
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#47. You didn't even keep a call-back clause?" Al asked, then waved his hand and answered his own question. "Of course not. You've had the worst upbringing of any demon I've seen." - Al to Rachel
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#48. He stepped forward, forcing me back. You're right. I made a decision. It was the wrong one.
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#49. A demon was asking me what I wanted.
My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. "What do you want?" he said softly.
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#50. That's my girl," she said, her eyes holding a shared pain as she saw my confusion. "Al, where are you going to put her? Not in your room. She'd pull a line through you and kill you when you hog the blankets. I'll take the waif in. I promise I'll bring this one up properly.
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#51. Pierce made a calculating noise, accidentally brushing my knee as he shifted. "As Jenks would say, you snore nice."
I smiled back unconvincingly. I snore nice. Not "I opine that your auditory nasal exhalations are most pleasing.
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#52. Hey, you freakin' bastard," I breathed. "You hit me again and I'll take care of your family planning.
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#53. If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers," he said, and I shivered. "Tell him that.
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#54. And don't try to sell me any crap about the kindly demon. I know three of you now, and you are all evil, insane, or just plain nasty.
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#55. You aren't a demon practitioner?" "No, but they seem to practice me." Trent and Rachel
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#56. Learning to understand those you hate and fear is harder. I
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#57. 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.
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#58. I hate it when people use stuff and don't replace
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#59. That's how pixies know we're in love," he said as he folded his dragonfly-like wings and wiggled out of his red jacket, wincing as something pulled. "If the girl has glow, she won't say no.
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#60. Maybe I could be friends with a ghost. I wouldn't be able to kill him.
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#61. Newt had said I loved Ivy more than the church. I wasn't going to deny it, but there were all kinds of love, and how shallow would I be if my anchor to reality was a hunk of real estate? It was the people who were there that made it mean something.
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#62. Ford put a hand to his head. "Back up. Back up!" he cried. "You're too close."
Heart pounding, I looked at the eight feet between us and pressed into the fridge.
"I think he meant for the ghost to back up," Jenks said dryly.
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#63. I asked, looking at the jukebox, now totally out of place, like a British police call box on the deck of the Titanic.
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#64. Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.
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#65. Her tiny hand gripped mine with a surprising warmth, and in a shocking wash of emotion, I felt everything I knew shift. The scent of cinnamon and baby powder hit me, and as my eyes widened, my heart melted, making room for her.
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#66. 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.
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#67. 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.
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#68. 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.
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#69. What is it you want?"
My heart pounded at his promise of freedom. I followed his gaze to my hands and the dirt under my nails. "You," I said.
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#70. I have a name," I grumped, my stomach pinching me harder.
"Yes, but it has no pizzazz. Ra-a-a-a-chel. Rach-e-e-e-eel," he said, trying it out in different ways. "No one will tremble in terror at that. Oh my God!" he said in a high falsetto. "It's Rachel! Run! Hide!
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#71. 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.
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#72. The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!
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#73. What was in the trunk?" I asked, and my eyes widened when he opened his coat and let me glimpse a big-ass rifle.
"I know these people," he said, his expression going hard. "We handle their insurance.
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#74. I suddenly realized that a bunch of my friends needed babysitters and vowed to start screening my calls.
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#75. Hovering near panic, trying to focus but finding it hard to open my eyes. My heart was pounding. I couldn't get enough air, and I couldn't find the desire to push her away
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#76. I glanced at the pain charms draped around my neck, thinking I looked like a drunken prostitute at Mardi Gras.
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#77. The quickest way to a woman's crotch is through her gullet. Can I make you a cake? Big Al to Pierce, then Rachel.
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#78. 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.
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#79. CINCINNATI MORGUE, AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY SERVICE SINCE 1966.
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#80. What a slug's ass. If he doesn't go to the hospital and die on paper, then we have a dead vamp to explain and will be brought up on insurance fraud. Rache, I'm too pretty to go to jail!
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#81. I could not believe this. I was going to be hacked to shreds to the accompaniment of applause.
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#82. Tension pulled my shoulders tight, and I prayed my conversation skills were better than my magic.
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#83. His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he'd tell me Ivy had it.
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#84. Say what?" Jenks blurted out. "You think those moss wipes are coming back?"
"I wish," I muttered. "I've got some serious hurt with their name on it.
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#85. Demon summoning wasn't illegal, but my foot in their gut a couple of times might convince them it was a really bad idea.
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#86. Oh, God, I'm going to be a hundred and sixty with a flower on my ass.
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#87. One person can't hold anything, but two can have the world ...
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#88. Bug?" Jenks shouted, incensed. "You sack of sweat stink. I've got farts that smell sweeter than you. Think you're better than me? Poop ice cream cones, do you?
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#89. I was having coffee with my bodyguard. I didn't expect to be hunting bad guys until later. Leather before sundown is tacky.
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#90. Emojin stopped, turned, and nailed him with her glare. Because she's making this one piece all she'll ever need to show the world who she is instead of coloring her body with random images and needing thirty expressions to show her soul.
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#92. 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.
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#93. Come on, Rachel! Jenks shrilled. ou're a badass, not a bad witch!
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#94. Living a lie tore at one's being and leaked out in the oddest of places.
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#95. I liked my kitchen. No, let me rephrase. I loved my kitchen with the loyalty of a bulldog to his favorite bone.
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#96. 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.
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#97. 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.
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#98. Worried, I touched the jacket's sleeve. "You think it's too much?" I asked, working hard to keep my tone non-combative. I'd had this conversation with ex-roommates before.
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#99. 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.
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#100. Anything worth having is going to be hard
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