Top 100 Kim Harrison Quotes
#1. My editor picked out the name she wanted. I was either going to be Kim Harrison or Lisa Harrison, because she wanted me shelved right next to Hamilton.
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" Tink's titties!" Jenks from any of Kim Harrison's books on The Hollows. (aka Cincinnati,OH)
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#3. And if he is lying and he double-crosses you, I'll kill him for you. From anyone else, it would have been an idle threat, and I smiled, feeling loved. (Ivy and Rachel)
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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.
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#8. Eight? Was it really eight? Adrenaline or not, this was an insane time to be up. That was humanity's problem right there. They were brain damaged from the early sun.
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#9. 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.
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#10. Revenge is a tricky beast. Her claws face both ways. I don't mind a few more scars. They'll be unnoticed among the rest.
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#11. You need someone a little dirty, honey, with a heart of gold.
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#12. Rachel, what do you do? Put an ad in the paper for trouble?
(Glenn)
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#13. Silly little vamp, afraid of her feelings.
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#14. Yes, but . . ." She hesitated, her gaze finally coming to me. "I survived because I fell in love."
With you was unspoken.
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#15. 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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#16. Just so you know, I've trusted you since camp.
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#17. Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don't go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don't flow.
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#18. It wasn't that the dark side was stronger, but that everything was the dark side. All magic was inherently wrong, and it was only us fooling ourselves that some of it was good, some of it was bad. Magic ... just was.
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#19. I didn't know what I was going to say, a feeling that was compounded when the line clicked open and Trent's very muzzy voice murmured, Rachel? Mmm, hi.
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#20. 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.
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#21. My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.
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#22. You weak-willed, jealous sack of vampire spit.
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#24. 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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#26. I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of sweat and emotional outpouring, colored entirely from their thoughts.
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#27. When desire's sold for freedom/and need exchanged for fame/those choices made in ignorance/turn to bloodstained dreams of shame.
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#28. The energy tasted like books, and I imagined we were still in the semipublic areas.
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#29. Alarmed, I looked at him, then the road, then at him again.
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#30. You can trust me to keep my word. I always keep my word, promises or threats.
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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. It was starting to smell really good in here. And if I liked what it smelled like, then they were liking what they were smelling, and ah ... that would be me.
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#34. 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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#35. I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.
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#36. With all the conveniences and clean simplicity we lived in, people had lost a lot of polish.
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#37. Put a scoop of ice cream on it?" she asked. "And coffee. Everyone want coffee?" She looked inquiringly at us, smiling in a way that made me decidedly nervous, especially after that "I can get us a body" remark, and I nodded. Coffee? Why not?
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#38. grande latte, double espresso, Italian blend, light on the froth, heavy on the cinnamon, with a shot of raspberry?
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#39. I want to love someone. I think I might already.
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#40. I gotta go," I wheezed. "This is shitty, you know? How do you live like this?"
"Rachel!" he cried, but it was too late,
(Rachel and Al)
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#42. I said school starts tomorrow. I didn't say I was going to be there.
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#44. Only three flowers? he said, clearly thinking that I should have more, and I smiled nervously. I didn't want a bouquet.
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#45. Pierce truly was a black witch. He had tried to kill with magic. It didn't matter if the charm was white, black, or polka dotted with silver sparkles.
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#46. What in Tink's contractual hell are you doing here?
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#47. She's not your type.
Since when do I have a type?
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#49. It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen
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#50. Don't hurt her!" I demanded, then shifted my expression to one I hoped looked lascivious enough. "I like untouched skin."
Tom flushed. "Ah, we couldn't find a virgin.
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#51. 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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#52. Not everything was legal, but nothing was immoral, and that was my guide these days.
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#53. If it was up to me, I'd choose the hard path with the easy ending, not the easy path with the hard end.
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#54. God, it stinks," I said, hand over my nose as he pulled me into a long step. Al strode forward, head high. "It's the stench of bureaucracy, my itchy-witch, and why I chose to go into human resources when but a wee lad.
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#55. You're big enough to bite now, mosquito, so shut up.
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#56. Typical" Kisten said, his eyes dramatically sad. "Try to do something nice for a person, cheer her up, and what do I get? Abused and robbed.
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#57. 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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#58. This can't happen. Minias said it couldn't happen. I'm not a demon. It shouldn't work for me! I'm not a demon!"
"Apparently," Al said, slamming into the bars in time with his words, "you're so damn close, it doesn't matter!
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#59. Do you have a finger stick?" she snapped.
"No."
"Then let me cut your finger."
"You're already bleeding," I said. "Use your blood.
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#60. It pulled emotion from me I wasn't aware I could feel. A deep painful regret. Unrequited need.
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#61. Not alone, echoed in my mind. Go. I'll bring you back. (Ford to Rachel)
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#62. 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.
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#63. 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.
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#64. 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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#65. Double damn. I was a harlot. I was a freaking vampire hussy.
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#66. See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn't screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good.
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#67. Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.
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#68. 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.
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#69. 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.
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#70. Bug? 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? Call me a bug! Rachel, let me do him now.
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#71. 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.
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#72. Skimmer's and my relationship was probably going to nosedive like a brick with wings.
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#74. 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.
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#75. Coffee. I could smell coffee. Coffee would make everything better.
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#76. A year of hell is worth three minutes in heaven. Or so they say.
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#77. I can't believe I'm saying this, but you're perfect for each other! You irritate people, and he smooths things out. You have good mojo, and he only thinks he does. You're broke, and he's rich. You've got those weird feet of yours, and he's got them cute ears.
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#78. 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.
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#79. Nick as in my former boyfriend Nick. Ex-rat, ex-boyfriend, ex-alive if I ever got hold of him Nick.
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#80. 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!
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#81. But a pawn could become a queen if she reached the end and came back again.
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#82. 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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#83. A clipboard and a hard hat could get you just about anywhere.
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#84. For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.
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#85. Al pulled me into him, and numb, I felt his arm curve possessively about my waist. "Too late," he whispered, his breath shifting the hair about my ear, and we jumped.
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#86. HAPA was like mint. You could rip it up, and six months later, it was back, healthier than ever. Mint smelled better, though, and you could make juleps out of it. I don't know what I could make out of HAPA. Compost, maybe.
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#88. Like the end of a picnic, all the weenies will be roasted.
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#89. Harmony crab-walked back. "You're the only one left, Reed. You were right. It was a trap. Michael is a sadist. We leave now, or I'll shoot you on sight next time I see you as one of Bill's brainwashed dolls.
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#90. The car picked up speed, and the sound seemed to lull me.I could relax, I thought as I felt the tingling of circulation in my limbs. I was in Trent's car, wrapped in a blanket, and held in his arms. He wouldn't let anything hurt me.
He wasn't singing, though,I mused.Shouldn't he be singing?
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#91. 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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#92. 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.
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#93. I got it this time, Daddy Warbucks," I said,
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#94. 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.
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#95. Oh, I'm sorry. Did I interrupt some sort of dominance foreplay?
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#96. 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.
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#97. The warm dampness of her breath made me shiver at the mix of the familiar and the unknown, with a soft exhalation she shifted her head and her lips found my collarbone, teasingly shy of my old scar. Tendrils pulsed in time with my heart, building on the ones before to an unseen height.
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#98. Ivy would die for you, Rachel. Kisten won't. Put your emotions where they will keep you alive.
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#99. Hate is all that keeps us alive when love is gone. You're almost there. Not quite ready to let it go yet.
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