Kim Harrison Quotes

Kim Harrison is a pen-name of American author Dawn Cook. Under the name of Harrison, she is best known for her Rachel Morgan urban fantasy series set in an alternate history where a worldwide pandemic caused by genetically modified tomatoes led to the death of a large portion of the world's human population. Under the name of Dawn Cook, she is best known for her Decoy Princess and Truth series, published in the first few years of the 21st century. Harrison has received praise from fellow authors, and has reached the #1 spot on the New York Times Best Seller list.

✵ 1966  •  Other names Dawn Cook

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Famous Kim Harrison Quotes

“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.”

Source: Dead Witch Walking

“Rachel, Rachel, Rachel,” he said, very still and unmoving. “Always jumping to the wrong conclusion. You’re like a frog, you know.”

Source: Pale Demon

“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.”

Source: Dead Witch Walking

“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)”

Source: For a Few Demons More

“I'd watch your mouth", he said, tilting his head as he looked at my ID."The last lunker who laughed at her picture spent the night in the emergency room with a drink umbrella jammed up his nose".”

“I am yours," Trent gasped through clenched teeth, and my hand sprang from him, thinking I was betrayed. Trent fell to a knee, looking up at me, pleading. "I. Am. Yours. Claim me, Rachel! Damn your morals and claim me!”

Source: Ever After

Kim Harrison Quotes about love

“I meant I’m not afraid of love being difficult. If it was easy, then everyone would find it.”

Source: Pale Demon

“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.”

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

“It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at.”

Source: Early to Death, Early to Rise

“Rachel, my itchy witch," Al said as he tugged the lace at his cuffs. "We've talked about this. You simply must stop collecting nasty little men. How many do you really need, love?”

Source: Black Magic Sanction

“I cannot stay," he lied for me, eyes averted. "I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.”

Variant: I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.
Source: Black Magic Sanction

“It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen”

Source: The Hollows Insider

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“That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people.”

Source: For a Few Demons More

“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.”

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

“The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty.”

Source: A Perfect Blood

Kim Harrison Quotes

“… treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't
until you do understand.”

“Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.”

Source: Pale Demon

“Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'
Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled.”

Source: A Fistful of Charms

“Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid.”

Source: The Outlaw Demon Wails

“What are you?" I rasped.
It smiled. "Whatever scares you.”

Source: Dead Witch Walking

“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”

Source: The Good, the Bad, and the Undead

“The mistakes don't matter. It's what you do when you mess up that does.”

Source: Early to Death, Early to Rise

“Oh for the sweet humpin' love of Tink! ~ Jenks”

Source: The Outlaw Demon Wails

“Most of the upper management of I. S. were undead. I always thought it was because the job was easier if you didn't have a soul.”

Source: Dead Witch Walking

“You try getting through the Hollows traffic with a stoned redhead hanging out the window shouting, 'I'm king of the world!' ~Lee”

Source: Black Magic Sanction

“As the joke goes, you don’t have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away.”

Source: A Fistful of Charms

“You need a new hobby, Rachel. Something other than nasty little men with visions of world domination.”

Source: Pale Demon

“My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.”

Source: A Perfect Blood

“Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.”

Source: Something Deadly This Way Comes

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

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

“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!”

Source: White Witch, Black Curse

“Hey, you freakin' bastard," I breathed. "You hit me again and I'll take care of your family planning.”

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

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

Source: Black Magic Sanction

“Just so you know, I’ve trusted you since camp.”

Source: Pale Demon

“What are you doing in Nicky's room, Rachel? Oooh! He summoned you to the west coast, didn't he? Did you kill him? Good for you taking care of that little problem? I should give you a bunny!" - Algaliarept”

Source: Black Magic Sanction

“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.”

Source: Dead Witch Walking

“Go to sleep, baby, Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiment so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.”

Source: Black Magic Sanction

“Ivy!' I stammered, then glared at Kisten. 'You told Ivy? Thanks a hell of a lot. Want to call my mom next?”

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

“No, you just keep crashing my life. Look—" I said, and Al grunted.
"Here it comes," the demon muttered. "Listen. Listen to this, runt. She's going to have a list.”

Source: Black Magic Sanction

“One person can't hold anything, but two can have the world…”

Source: A Fistful of Charms

“Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies.
Jenks (Black Magic Sanction)”

Source: Black Magic Sanction

“God, if you ever loved me, open my eyes for me when I'm being this stupid! (Ron)”

Source: Once Dead, Twice Shy

“the mad have a grace all their own”

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

“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.”

Source: A Fistful of Charms

“You look like the vamp who bled the cat.”

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

“But he's Rachel Candy!"
-Both Jenks and Al”

Source: White Witch, Black Curse

“You think Ivy's a planner? She has nothing on a motivated elf with too much money.”

Source: Pale Demon

“Your welcome means more to me, Ivy Alisha Tamwood, than a thousand souls. Watching Rachel work is a wonder of one catastrophe after another.”

“I won’t snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You’re worse than my mother, Rachel.”
“Mine, too,” Jenks muttered.”

Source: White Witch, Black Curse

“Al was looking at me in disbelief. “Not your lover?”
“No.”
“But he is Rachel candy,” Al said, his confusion too honest to be faked.”

“You had this all planned, didn’t you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?' It wasn’t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried.”

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

“We were innocent once. How could it have gone so bad?”

Source: Pale Demon

“You cannot thrash the person who makes you coffee. It's a rule somewhere.”

Source: Ever After

“Rachel, what do you do? Put an ad in the paper for trouble?
(Glenn)”

Source: Black Magic Sanction

“The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!”

Source: Pale Demon

“Breaking rules isn't bad when what you're doing is more important than the rule itself”

Source: Once Dead, Twice Shy

“Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.”

Source: White Witch, Black Curse

“You think my kids just popped out of the ground?”

Source: Dead Witch Walking

“Rachel?” came Ivy’s voice from her room. “Where’s my sword?”
“In the foyer where you left it last week when the evangelists were canvassing the neighborhood”

Source: A Perfect Blood

“Oh, I'm sorry. Did I interrupt some sort of dominance foreplay?”

Source: A Perfect Blood

“Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.”

“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.”

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

“Sweet mother of chaos," he breathed. "Rachel, you are indeed one of us. Have your time in the sun. You're worth the extra wait.”

Source: Black Magic Sanction

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

Source: Dead Witch Walking

“Like the end of a picnic, all the weenies will be roasted.”

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