Kim Harrison Quotes

On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.

There's no free ride. Someone always pays and if you don't know who that someone is, it's probably you.

Before hastening to secure a possible reward of five taels by dragging an unobservant person away from a falling building, examine well his features lest you find, when too late, that it is one to whom you are indebted for double that amount.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.

The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.

It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

Consequences don’t just go away. They aren’t suddenly dissolved just because forgiveness has been desired or given.

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... Wings.

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.

Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them

Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.

Vampires probably don't have great breath.

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

Have you been sniffing fairy farts?

My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.

Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

The more suffering you create, the more suffering comes to you.

One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.