“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, quote from Ever After
“You cannot thrash the person who makes you coffee. It's a rule somewhere.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“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!”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“I want…” he said, then hesitated, taking a breath of air and lifting his chin. “I want one pure thing in my life,” he said loudly, his voice ringing in the red-tinted air. “I want one thing I can point to and say, ‘That is good, and it’s a part of me.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“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, quote from Ever After
“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, quote from Ever After
“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, quote from Ever After
“[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, quote from Ever After
“I thought of Al in his dream, looking nothing like this, more like an elegant bat. Broken? Perhaps, but I had put his butterfly back together with my blood. “I never liked the movie Titanic,” I said, and he grunted, his gaze sharpening on me. “They both could have gotten on that damn door.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“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, quote from Ever After
“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.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“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, quote from Ever After
“You are the devil to talk to, Rachel," he said curtly. "Will you shut up and listen?”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“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, quote from Ever After
“I sighed. "And what am I to you, Al?"
"My maid," he said brightly. "Shall we do this?”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“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, quote from Ever After
“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, quote from Ever After
“Hate is all that keeps us alive when love is gone. You’re almost there. Not quite ready to let it go yet.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers," he said, and I shivered. "Tell him that.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“If it was up to me, I’d choose the hard path with the easy ending, not the easy path with the hard end.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“Piss on my daisies, we have to save the demons!”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“With a gentle pressure, our lips met. His hands slipped more firmly about me, and I held myself back, not afraid, but wanting to feel everything slowly as I leaned in, tasting the wine on him, feeling the warmth of his body pressing into mine, breathing in our scents that were mingling and changing with the warmth. My hands rose to find his hair, and I relaxed into him as the silky strands brushed through my fingers. I wanted more, and I leaned into him as our lips moved against each other.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“But I knew Nick. He was too ugly to die.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“that was humanity's problem right there. they are brain damaged from the early sun”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“What are you doing now?” Al questioned, listing heavily as he tucked another one of those bottles under his arm and staggered for the cot half hidden behind a curtain. “Seeing if your circumcision is gone? It is.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“A clipboard and a hard hat could get you just about anywhere.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“Pierce took a step back to put more space between us. “I demanded too much,” he said, his sadness at himself, not me. “I see in your heart you found someone who makes you strong who does not hold too tight, who has learned that the pain of losing you to fate is more than the pain of you dying in a cage. Who is he?”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“I have to save the world tomorrow, and I don’t even know what I’m going to wear yet.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“The demon had trouble remembering what she was doing, but she was powerful, sort of the crazy Wendy of the lost lord-of-the-flies boys.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
“Small steps could make large journeys, if admittedly very slow ones.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from Ever After
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“I had never really thought of children as people, just as mysterious and needy creatures on their way to something greater.”
― Michelle Richmond, quote from The Year of Fog
“It's like a cat bell, so pretty yet alarming, because i know I'm letting myself fall when maybe I should fly away. But the loneliness inside, it's so fucking painful. It's that longing feeling that scratches to escape and makes you want to blurt out all kinds of gushy crap just to get the girl to look at you...I hate it. Love its melty-ness and hate its leash around my neck.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Dead to You
“But it is common knowledge that religions don’t want conviction, on the basis of reasons, but faith, on the basis of revelation. And the capacity for faith is at its strongest in childhood: which is why religions apply themselves before all else to getting these tender years into their possession. It is in this way, even more than by threats and stories of miracles, that the doctrines of faith strike roots: for if, in earliest childhood, a man has certain principles and doctrines repeatedly recited to him with abnormal solemnity and with an air of supreme earnestness such as he has never before beheld, and at the same time the possibility of doubt is never so much as touched on, or if it is only in order to describe it as the first step towards eternal perdition, then the impression produced will be so profound that in almost every case the man will be almost incapable of doubting this doctrine as of doubting his own existence, so that hardly one in a thousand will then possess the firmness of mind seriously and honestly to ask himself: is this true?”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, quote from The Wisdom of Life
“Buddhism teaches us to be tolerant and accepting, but tolerance does NOT mean accepting what is harmful.”
― Timber Hawkeye, quote from Buddhist Boot Camp Manuscript
“Vaclav is always telling his father that the word in English is bladder, and his father always responds that learning how to name piss and shit is not why he came all this way from Russia.”
― Haley Tanner, quote from Vaclav and Lena
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