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Actually," I said, hesitant to bring it up, "I was thinking along the lines of a curse that can turn you human." "Or witch?" Ivy said, surprising me. There was a soft vulnerability in her and I blinked. "You don't want to be a witch," I said quickly. "Why not? You are. -- Kim Harrison
It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen -- Kim Harrison
How did you find me?" he said, anger creasing his brow.
I pushed his hair back to run a finger over the scar Al had given him. "How do you think? He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake."
From the corner, Al shifted his tune. "So be good, or I'll rip your fucking head off -- Kim Harrison
It's going to be all right. You're going to be all right. She's going to leave. You don't have to worry about her again. I won't let any vampire hurt you. I can do this. I'll stay big, and make sure no one hurts you again. It'll be okay. I'll make sure you're safe. -- Kim Harrison
I think she suspects something, though. We've had cherry pie for dessert five nights in a row. His voice drawled, and my smile deepened. -- Kim Harrison
I really didn't have a choice. It wasn't as if Kotex made a pad for this kind of a thing. -- Kim Harrison
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) -- Kim Harrison
Some nasty bitch of a woman from the coven of moral and ethical standards tried to fry Rache" the pixy said apparently proud of it. "I pixed the Tink-blasted dildo, and Rache's black-arts boyfriend blew her right out the front door. "Bam! -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
What are you?" I rasped.
It smiled. "Whatever scares you. -- Kim Harrison
I'm giving you fair warning, Mr. Cormel. If you bespell Rachel, I'll open up your head for the sunshine to come in." - Jenks -- Kim Harrison
Rachel, Rachel, Rachel," he said, very still and unmoving. "Always jumping to the wrong conclusion. You're like a frog, you know. -- Kim Harrison
Using your feminine wiles to lead my familiar astray. If all you want is dangerous sex, I can give that to you better than he can, and I won't break your heart afterward. - Al to Rachel -- Kim Harrison
I'm heir to madness. Vessel of perversion. Your nightmare should you cross me."
Daryl's chin lifted, trembling. "Indeed. We might be sisters then, for I'm the same. -- Kim Harrison
I frowned, wondering if Trent would mind being the size of a fairy for a day. He could talk to the newest tenants in his garden. -- Kim Harrison
Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It's a lack of resources. -- Kim Harrison
He stepped forward, forcing me back. You're right. I made a decision. It was the wrong one. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Sir," he said calmly, "that was the worst line I've ever heard, not only insulting but showing a severe lack of forethought. You're obviously bothering the young woman. You should leave before she does permanent damage to you. -- Kim Harrison
Slicker than snot on a door handle. -- Kim Harrison
Newt spun, making her robe unfurl. "He's my familiar, bought and paid for. I can claim anything of his. Even his life." Al cleared his throat nervously. "That's good to know," he said lightly. "Important safety tip. Rachel, write that down somewhere as lesson number one. -- Kim Harrison
I liked my kitchen. No, let me rephrase. I loved my kitchen with the loyalty of a bulldog to his favorite bone. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Because I'm never going to let you go, Rachel. I don't care how much you push me away because you're scared. I'll just hold you until you get over it. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
I wanted it, then felt guilty for wanting water when my friends were going to kill each other. -- Kim Harrison
I'll wait for you under the bluebells. I'll be there always. -- Kim Harrison
Was I a fool to trust, or a wiser person finding the capacity to forgive? -- Kim Harrison
Hello-o-o-o-o, Nick," I said, hitting thek hard. "You're the world's biggest jerk for what you did to Jax. You ever show your scrawny face in Cincinnati again, and I'm going to shove a broomstick up your ass and set it on fire. You got that? -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Ivy!' I stammered, then glared at Kisten. 'You told Ivy? Thanks a hell of a lot. Want to call my mom next? -- Kim Harrison
Newt turned back to me, her eyes black as the sun slipped away. From the slump of broken castle, a rock fell. "We exist in a zoo," she said, chilling me. "You know that, yes? I hope our funding doesn't run out. I'd give anything for a better enclosure, one that at least hides the bars. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me. -- Kim Harrison
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! -- Kim Harrison
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! -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
I have lots of faith," the fallen angel said as he crouched down and coaxed the dog closer. "I have faith that this is a bad idea. She's not going to belive you. She's going to think we're nuts. She's going to call the police unless she has a record, and if she does she'll run away. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
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? -- Kim Harrison
But I've been to the other side and survived the trip back and can move like a queen." Pixy dust sifted over us, and my skin burned. "Don't piss me off." Behind -- Kim Harrison
I may be a pawn, but I've been to the other side and survived the trip back and I can move like a queen. Don't piss me off. -- Kim Harrison
I may be a pawn," I said as I locked my shaking knees. "But I've been to the other side and survived the trip back and can move like a queen." Pixy dust sifted over us, and my skin burned. "Don't piss me off. -- Kim Harrison
You weak-willed, jealous sack of vampire spit. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right. -- Kim Harrison
Listen to me, you broken-fanged, moss-wiped excuse for a back-drafted blood bag! Jenks said, a silver-edged red dust slipping from him. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Kisten probably has one in here," she muttered, then turned with a tube of what looked like lipstick. "Ta-da!"
Ta-da, huh? -- Kim Harrison
Tell you what," I said, my eyebrows rising. "You can drive me home if we keep to one topic on the way."
"Your father?" he guessed, and I nodded. I was getting used to this deal-with-a-demon business. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
But they're dying. The church, I mean," she added as I met her eyes. "No new members. It's sad, really. The -- Kim Harrison
What do you want me to do?
Marry you?
People grow up! Move away! I'm going to college, not the moon! -- Kim Harrison
Her smile turned wicked. "And I'm not a silly girl to be blinded by a tidy posterior and expansive landholdings."
Tidy posterior and expansive landholdings? Was that the Dark Ages equivalent of a tight ass and a lot of money? -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
I can think of a lot of things to do," he said, "and none of them involve standing up. - Al -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Her elf is going to do just that," he said, the red glow of the ever-after sun turning his hair auburn, almost as red as mine. "I did not work this hard at getting her to accept who she is to let you take your spoiled brat of a little-boy temper tantrum out on her. She stays on my side of the lines. -- Kim Harrison
Tension pulled my eyes open when her fingers traced a trail down my neck. Sensation blossomed, and I threw my head back and sucked in the air. Her arm slipped around my waist, catching me before I fell. -- Kim Harrison
Jenks, you can fly me up the rest of the way to Trent, and then pow! I give
Trent his statue."
"Pow, you'll be naked!" Jenks exclaimed.
(Rachel and Jenks) -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Yes, but . . ." She hesitated, her gaze finally coming to me. "I survived because I fell in love."
With you was unspoken. -- Kim Harrison
I don't want easy anymore. It's worthless and the shine doesn't last. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
I got it this time, Daddy Warbucks," I said, -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
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? -- Kim Harrison
Hey, you freakin' bastard," I breathed. "You hit me again and I'll take care of your family planning. -- Kim Harrison
No," she said firmly. "I want you to stay when I go. Break tradition again, my love, and burn me alone in the home we built. I don't want you with me. You aren't done. You see too far ahead. You need to make the world in your thoughts a real one that our children can fly in." - Matalina to Jenks -- Kim Harrison
I'd give anything if you'd kiss me." I said. "I mean," I said when he tilted his head to look at me, his eyes wide in shock, "I've kissed guys before. It's like a handshake these days," I lied, just wanting to know what his lips on mind would feel like. "Almost required if you're leaving. -- Kim Harrison
I'd say she's get us both fired, but the I.S. doesn't let anyone go. Alive. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
With all the conveniences and clean simplicity we lived in, people had lost a lot of polish. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
My fingers tightened on my waxed paper cup, sure now I knew why Minias was sitting at a table sipping coffee with me. I had a password. I had a reason to trade. I had a major problem. -- Kim Harrison
By Tink's diaphram...! -- Kim Harrison
You think my kids just popped out of the ground? -- Kim Harrison
A devious spark lit through Al, making me smile. One way. It costs too much,
he said.
"There's no inflation in the ever-after, Al."
Call it a recession then. One way. -- Kim Harrison
Ivy still had her tree up in the living room, and we exchanged presents when we felt like it, not on a specific date. Usually that was about an hour after I got back from shopping. Delayed gratification was Ivy's thing, not mine. -- Kim Harrison
There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a false god I've chased my entire life. One that cost me everything in the blind search for sensation. My entire existence amounted to nothing. -- Kim Harrison
Size 8 women's, and a men's 10. -- Kim Harrison
Silas straightened in his seat, clearly uneasy. "This is so bad for my asthma," he said, the familiar phrase coming from him startling her. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
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
Welcome home, Rachel mariana Morgan, he said, his goat-slitted eyes holding a new, dangerous light. It's a pleasure to finally meet you. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Ku'Sox was indeed a demon. In. The. Sun. I needed answers, but I wanted them from Al, not ... Cute Socks here. -- Kim Harrison
I opine you wouldn't know help if it smacked you in the face. Stubborn, bullheaded, wild fey thing of a woman. - Pierce -- Kim Harrison
She's not much of a team player, more of a team yeller. -- Kim Harrison
Vamps were homebodies - high-maintenance, party-till-you-die, don't-look-at-me-funny-or-I'll-kill-you homebodies, but homebodies nevertheless. -- Kim Harrison
She's a wolf. Get it right, crap for brains. Tink's knickers, you have got to be the stupidest lunker I've ever lit on. -- Kim Harrison
I like attics. They're as peaceful as God's church. Alone and apart, but a body can hear everything. The past stacked up like forgotten memories, but with a small effort, brought down and enjoyed again. -- Kim Harrison
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". -- Kim Harrison
His mind seemed to expand as time became malleable, and with a sudden pop he could almost feel the world reset with a crystalline clarity of lost chances. -- Kim Harrison
Refuse to follow where you're led (Dancing)
The line begins to blur
When you look too far ahead. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Again Al touched me, but this time, his hand was gentle on my shoulder. "And if you're not, it's Ku'Sox. He knows you're too protected here, and you're a threat to him. He's summoning you. He's summoning you to where I can't follow. He's going to try to kill you! -- Kim Harrison
It was a nice bit of blackmail that kept him off my back, but he refused to take the message that I wasn't going to work for him. 'Course, that might be my fault ... since I seemed unable to say no when he waved enough money at me. -- Kim Harrison
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
Trent nodded, that same tight look about his jaw. "It would have worked except for one thing," he said, and Wayde looked up.
"What's that?" he asked blearily.
Silent, Trent stared at me while my heart hammered, once, twice, three times. "She's got friends," he finally said. -- Kim Harrison
His seat belt was on, and his hands dropped from where he'd been fiddling with the visor.
"You look small," he finally said, looking both innocent and wise. -- Kim Harrison
You don't have to have sex to find a feeling of closeness and understanding. Lord knows I feel that way about you. Use that to shackle your hunger. Isn't that what love is? -- Kim Harrison
I'm not going to stay sround to send reapers to kill people who are too scared, or frightened, or JUST PLAIN STUPID to find joy in life. -- Kim Harrison
Shades of gray, I thought, knowing I was slipping into places I had vowed I'd never go. -- Kim Harrison
No one wears buckles anymore, and I decided to get him some real boots next winter solstice.Some sexy guy boots. Yeah. -- Kim Harrison
The zeal of the stupid in her, Chris began turning pages as if it were the winter solstice gift catalog, earmarking pages and cooing in delight at the new possibilities. -- Kim Harrison
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? -- Kim Harrison
Who's going to keep them from wiping us out species by species? Not me. We aren't prepared for a new demographic of magic-using humans who are sadistic, power hungry, don't like Inderlanders, and see genocide as an acceptable form of communication. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Together we made our way from the service entrances in back to the front, Jenks shedding clothes and handing them to me to stuff in my bag every few yards. It was terribly distracting, but I managed to avoid running into the Dumpsters and recycling bins. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Just because I don't wear my heart on my sleeve - "
"You don't even wear your heart in your chest, -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
I said school starts tomorrow. I didn't say I was going to be there. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Ivy rose to rinse the carafe. She leaned close to me, running the water to blur her words as she muttered, "What's wrong with her? She's crying over her tea. -- Kim Harrison
I told you not to confuse forgetfulness with stupidity," Allen said. "She's extremely intelligent. Did you use the audio binder? Give her the Amneoset? -- Kim Harrison
Join us next time for Days of the Undead when Rachel learns her long lost brother is really a crown prince from outer space. -- Kim Harrison
day sleeper. solicitors will be eaten. -- Kim Harrison
I smiled at David, even as I shoved at him to give me more room. I hadn't been pleased last night when he'd insisted I wasn't to be left alone, but you don't argue with two hundered pounds of wolf
you make room. -- Kim Harrison
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! -- Kim Harrison
Falling in love was the easiest thing in the world to do. Why was it always so hard for me to survive it? -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Your hair is a tangled mess,he said, thinking he liked it that way, like a lion's mane. -- Kim Harrison
You tried to slide his original curse back onto him?" Al said in wonder. "At the restaurant? And I stopped you? Sweet mother pus bucket!" he exclaimed, and I swear, dust sifted from the ceiling. "Rachel, we have to work on this communication thing. -- Kim Harrison
Thanks, Edden," I said, truly pleased that he was sending someone for Jenks not only because now I didn't have to, but that he'd thought of Jenks at all. "You're a peach."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," he said, and I could hear his smile. "I bet you say that to all the captains. -- Kim Harrison
I'll go through my Christmas card list, Trent said, -- Kim Harrison
Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives.
The harder to hear your neighbors scream, my dear,' was David's answer, and I sent my head up and down in agreement. -- Kim Harrison
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 -- Kim Harrison
As my hand found his, bitter salt tears spilled from my eyes, in sorrow and pain and regret that I had so utterly failed him. -- Kim Harrison
It's not an important case, and you'll have to wait, he said. I'm busy. Is there anything else you want to bitch about? - Minias -- Kim Harrison
Glenn ... I wasn't expecting this. He's not after my blood, and we like the same stuff."
From the rearview mirror, Jenks snickered. "Guns, violence, crime scene photos, leather, sex, and women. Yeah, I can see that."
(Ivy and Jenks) -- Kim Harrison
My God, woman. Your aura is glowing. Just admit you like him, bump uglies, and get on with your life! -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
I opine-I think you're a woman of your world,' he said from the far end of the couch. 'I would have a hard time seeing you pressed and powdered, dreading a life of servitude under the name of marriage. You'd die in that mold. I like you as you are, fiery and ill tempered. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
The world was going to change again. I should have worn nicer shoes. -- Kim Harrison
Alarmed, I looked at him, then the road, then at him again. -- Kim Harrison
If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers," he said, and I shivered. "Tell him that. -- Kim Harrison
What did I care what some guy in brown shorts thought? Even if he wore the uniform very well. Damn, where did they go to hire these guys? The gym? -- Kim Harrison
I'd never seen a man who could outshop me, but Jenks was a master. -- Kim Harrison
Good God, the man is dumber than Tink's dildo... -- Kim Harrison
You need someone a little dirty, honey, with a heart of gold. -- Kim Harrison
Be reasonable. I know you can be. If you try very, very hard. - Al to Rachel -- Kim Harrison
See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn't screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. -- Kim Harrison
'Dandelion Wine' became one of the few books that I returned to time and again, and while not anywhere near the story crafter as Mr. Bradbury, I hope I managed to absorb by osmosis some of his techniques. -- Kim Harrison
As the joke goes, you don't have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away. -- Kim Harrison
I'm a pixy, Rachel. I may look all tough and stuff, but I got wings, and I know infatuation when I see it. -- Kim Harrison
I have to save the world tomorrow, and I don't even know what I'm going to wear yet.
Rachel Morgan -- Kim Harrison
Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it. -- Kim Harrison
Treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't
until you do understand. -- Kim Harrison
Oh God.
Jenks, you aren't a carton of milk with an expiration date. You look great - -- Kim Harrison
Ivy would die for you, Rachel. Kisten won't. Put your emotions where they will keep you alive. -- Kim Harrison
She's not your type.
Since when do I have a type? -- Kim Harrison
[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
The Weres would track us from there. I'm surprised they haven't found us already. I can't believe you bit her. We have four Were packs scenting for our blood, and you think now is a good time to change your relationship? -- Kim Harrison
I just want my name back so my life can go back to chaotic and weird instead
of chaotic and desperate. -- Kim Harrison
I'm telling you, Ivy, this is the best thing to happen to her since that boy band she liked got run over by a pack of migrating deer. Look how relaxed she is. Better than a spa day. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Just so you know, I've trusted you since camp. -- Kim Harrison
Knowing your limits is a strength, not a weakness. -- Kim Harrison
I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Apparently their numerous tattoos gave them protection against the cold as they had no coats. -- Kim Harrison
You need a new hobby, Rachel. Something other than nasty little men with visions of world domination. -- Kim Harrison
I could sit and watch nature documentaries with Jenks and the kids the rest of the night if I wanted. And trust me, watching a dozen pixies scream as a crocodile chomped on a zebra was something not to be missed. They invariably cheered for the crocodile, not the zebra. -- Kim Harrison
Rachel, you are one crazy bitch. But I like you. Your loyalty impresses me. It makes putting up with the rest of your crap worth it. -- Kim Harrison
Winona! I said, quashing my first initial panic at finding a horned, tailed, demonic creature smiling at me. -- Kim Harrison
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? -- Kim Harrison
I was with a six-foot-four, athletic, angsty young man dressed in casual linen pants and matching fawn-colored shirt. Under it was a skintight two-piece suit of silk and spandex that had set us back a couple hundred dollars, but after seeing him in it, my head bobbed and my card came out. -- Kim Harrison
Close your eyes. Take a breath. Count to three. Let it out. Count to four."
"Shove it up your ass," he said, hunching into himself and starting to shake. "The last time you told me to close my eyes and count from ten, look what happened to me. -- Kim Harrison
They tried to kill me," he said, his brow furrowed as he glared at them. "You saw them!" "Yeah?" I spouted off. "They weren't very good at it!" (Trent and Rachel) -- Kim Harrison
And as far as Piscary is concerned, he can burn in hell - if his soul hadn't already evaporated. -- Kim Harrison
Look at yourself right now. You're half dead from blood loss, and you're out shopping. These disguises look great, but that's all they are: thin sheets of maybe standing between you and trouble. -- Kim Harrison
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 -- Kim Harrison
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
Because children should have the chance to be loved by those who love them - always and no matter what. -- Kim Harrison
You call me your girl one more time and I'm going to turn your gonads into plums and make jam out of them. -- Kim Harrison
My breath slipped from me, almost a groan. Trent Kalamack. The obscenely successful, smiling businessman, ruthless bio- and street-drug lord, elf in hiding, and pain-in-my-ass-extraordinaire Trent Kalamack. Right on schedule. Why is it you show up only when I need money? -- Kim Harrison
Trent sighed, visibly bothered at my admittedly childish behavior, but I was hot, damn it, and needed money, and therefore I was vulnerable to his bribes and his air-conditioned car. -- Kim Harrison
Have you been sniffing fairy farts? -- Kim Harrison
He's going to hurt you," Al said, looking at Pierce. "I can take care of you, teach you to survive. Be there for you, even if you do hate me." I shivered. "I don't want him," I said, and Al turned away, seeming smaller somehow. -- Kim Harrison
She was getting bitchy.That was a good sign. "What am I supposed to do till you get back?" I said, patting the smouldering leather. "Hide in my closet? I"d rather be with you. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Boots and leather jackets were strewn on her bed, and what looked like a new knife set. She'd taken a class last winter and was dying to try them out legally on someone. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Wait until the sun sets tonight, and if we are both here to see it, then my heart will break knowing you are safe and yet not to be mine. If you are gone, then my heart will break knowing that God has taken you home ...
Gordian Pierce -- Kim Harrison
Did I ever tell you about the time I was working for the I.S. to help feed my family? Matalina had just had another set of quads and things were looking ugly. I had to take a job for hazard pay to babysit this witch no one else would touch. - Jenks -- Kim Harrison
And you knows ugly when you sees ugly, don't ya, sweet thang. -- Kim Harrison
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
You all think that security and peace are born from destroying everything stronger than you? There is no safety. There is no peace but what you make, every day, every second, with every choice. -- Kim Harrison
And he was athletic in a lean sort of way, his long legs able to keep up with me whenever I coerced him into driving me out to the zoo for their early open hours for runners only; those hills were killers on the calves. -- Kim Harrison
Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies.
Jenks (Black Magic Sanction) -- Kim Harrison
Somehow I found him. Somehow I found Al's sarcastic thoughts, bitter and old. Tired, angry, bored. Alone. -- Kim Harrison
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 -- Kim Harrison
The coat was a remnant from his stint at being people-size. I'd gotten his jacket, Ivy had gotten his silk robe, and we'd thrown out his two dozen toothbrushes. -- Kim Harrison
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
You can't forget anything," I said, watching the words vanish into nothing. "And even if you do, it always comes back to bitch-slap you in the morning. -- Kim Harrison
And L-M-N-O-P is not one letter, but five. It took me forever to figure that out. -- Kim Harrison
Nick as in my former boyfriend Nick. Ex-rat, ex-boyfriend, ex-alive if I ever got hold of him Nick. -- Kim Harrison
Two grande lattes, double espresso, Italian blend," he said to the clerk. "Light on the froth, extra cinnamon. Use whole milk. Not two percent or half-and-half. Put a shot of raspberry in one for my itchy witch here. -- Kim Harrison
Where did he go!" he bellowed, gloved hands clenching. "I had him in a snare
that would take Alexander the Great a lifetime to untwist, and he did it in a
week!" Al took a step, pinwheeling as his booted heel found an ice cube. -- Kim Harrison
You're moved by love. That means everything. Take it from one who's lost all and then gained more. -- Kim Harrison
...Ivy's COOK THE STEAK, DON'T STAKE THE COOK apron... -- Kim Harrison
If Jenks and she were to be believed, I structured my life to be as horrific as possible to have fun in bed, but having Ivy mad at me might be too much for even me right now. -- Kim Harrison
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
Wayde yelled, and I hit him again, adrenaline pulling a scream of outrage from me. He went quiet, and I held my breath to make sure I could hear him breathing. I suppose I could have used my magic on him, but this was a lot more satisfying. -- Kim Harrison
Jenks shook his head. "Rache, I really feel bad for her, but Ivy's right. She can't stay here. She needs professional help."
"Really?" I said belligerently, feeling myself warm. "I haven't heard of any group therapy sessions for retired demon familiars, have you? -- Kim Harrison
By the light coming from the patio, it looked a shade after sunrise. I had to stop waking up at this hour. It was just insane. -- Kim Harrison
The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo! -- Kim Harrison
grande latte, double espresso, Italian blend, light on the froth, heavy on the cinnamon, with a shot of raspberry? -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Jenks's wings tickled my neck, and I shivered. -- Kim Harrison
I felt my shoulders ease at her admission. She was going to do what she had to do, and I was going to do what I had to do. And Ivy? Ivy was going to go insane. -- Kim Harrison
I'll always be here," he said softly. "You can never fill my need, never drive me away, no matter how much you give me. The good or the bad. I'll always be hungry for emotion, always and forever, and I can feel you hurting. I can turn it to joy. If you'll let me. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Not alone, echoed in my mind. Go. I'll bring you back. (Ford to Rachel) -- Kim Harrison
How could someone with a bloody rag around their arm look that confident? Because he could sing someone to death? -- Kim Harrison
The mistakes don't matter. It's what you do when you mess up that does. -- Kim Harrison
I want to love someone. I think I might already. -- Kim Harrison
Because for all the changes, some things were immutable truths: friendship transcends all barriers, understanding trumps fear, and great power can always be surmounted by determination. -- Kim Harrison
Rachel isn't a lady," he said as he shut the drawer with a bang. "She's a witch, rhymes with bitch, randy and ready. -- Kim Harrison
Humans were so ignorant, taking for granted what they received from each other, never knowing the energy they passed between themselves. -- Kim Harrison
Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
People die, Rachel," Ceri said, her cheeks flushing.
"Not if I can help it," I snapped. "And not of a broken heart. If you could, I'd be dead already. -- Kim Harrison
She thought I could find a way to save her soul when she died and became an undead. Right now, I was just looking to find the rent money. I'd get to my roommate's soul later. -- Kim Harrison
Nina looked up, her eyes fixing on mine with such ferocity I could almost see the undead vampire in them.
"There is something under here," she said, and I shivered.
"Yeah, we know, dirt nap," Jenks said.
"Rachel already told us. -- Kim Harrison
I plucked at my salt-stained shirt and tried to find an air of nonchalance as I prepared to introduce His Most Holy Pain in the Ass to Miss Elf Princess. -- Kim Harrison
My name is Rachel Morgan," Al said, mimicking my voice perfectly. "I like black panties, action movies, and being on top. -- Kim Harrison
I can smell her all over you. You need some help taming her?
Let me break her in for you. -- Kim Harrison
She had given me a piece of what made her life sane. -- Kim Harrison
I reached to push my hair out of my eyes, finding someone had tied a knot it in. My face screwed up in anger as I realized it was a HAPA knot. Real funny. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Come on, Rachel! Jenks shrilled. ou're a badass, not a bad witch! -- Kim Harrison
I am black," she said, and a shudder rippled through me. "I am foul with a
thousand years of demon curses. Don't cross me or I will bring you and your house down. Rachel is the only clean thing I have, and you won't sully her to
further your high ideas. -- Kim Harrison
Muttering about caves, Jenks came in with my suitcase, his eyes roving the low ceiling. He dropped my bag by the door, tossed me the keys to the van, and headed out, flicking the light switch several times because he could. -- Kim Harrison
Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.
-- Kim Harrison
Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid. -- Kim Harrison
He darted a guilty look toward his dad. "Will you - get me a bottle of spicy?"
My eyes jerked to his.
"Maybe some barbecue sauce?"
I closed my mouth before a bug flew into it. "Sure." I did not believe this. I was pimping ketchup to the son of the FIB's captain. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Why aren't you afraid of me?
I've seen my death, and you're not it. -- Kim Harrison
Skimmer's and my relationship was probably going to nosedive like a brick with wings. -- Kim Harrison
Bye, Skimmer. Thanks for breakfast."
"You're welcome." Translation: Choke on it, bitch. -- Kim Harrison
Piscary killed people, but he didn't have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish and to stop eating people. But Trent? He knew he was doing wrong, and he did it anyway. -- Kim Harrison
Just what I need. My own personal shoulder devil, wearing black and smelling like the Garden of Eden. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
If I'd been hit with the same thing as Glenn, I probably had his doctor. The
thought seemed about right when Glenn shrank back in his chair with a guilty expression. The tomato, too, was in hiding somewhere. I didn't want to know where. I truly didn't. -- Kim Harrison
As I watched, another pizza went out, the car lurching into the street and speeding away with the quickness that told of a large engine. Pizza drivers have made good money since they successfully lobbied for hazard pay. -- Kim Harrison
No exclusive," I said aloud, watching Al for his opinion and seeing him shake his head and hold his hands out in a "bigger" gesture. He didn't even know how large the offer was, and he thought I could get one bigger. -- Kim Harrison
I knew it was a trap, itchy witch," the demon said, but then a flash of white exploded against the inside of the circle. I felt the bubble go down, leaving a white disk of ash where the carpet had burned away. "But I didn't know it was a lethal one," he continued, -- Kim Harrison
She smiled with the warmth of a penguin. -- Kim Harrison
You! she said, stepping forward with a vehement expression and her finger pointed. Heart pounding, I pressed into Al. Funny how he seemed so much safer now. (Newt, Rachel and Al) -- Kim Harrison
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 -- Kim Harrison
You can trust me to keep my word. I always keep my word, promises or threats. -- Kim Harrison
Double damn. I was a harlot. I was a freaking vampire hussy. -- Kim Harrison
We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen.
Nothing did.
"This isn't good," Quen said.
I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Tell me where you want it," I said.
Minias drew back, his purple robes shifting about his ankles. "You're asking me?"
"Well, unless you want a big R on your forehead. -- Kim Harrison
Puppy presents on the rug. This sucked. -- Kim Harrison
Tension pulled my shoulders tight, and I prayed my conversation skills were better than my magic. -- Kim Harrison
Al was standing a bare three feet away, his mood almost jovial as he took the paper and it vanished in a wash of black sparkles.
"Thank you, Rachel," he said, carefully reaching for my hand as Trent stiffened.
"Welcome back, my itchy witch. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
I meant I'm not afraid of love being difficult. If it was easy, then everyone would find it. -- Kim Harrison
God, how did I get to this place where my friends sell themselves to keep me alive? -- Kim Harrison
In a smooth, unhurried motion, Jenks reached out and slapped him. "Seems to me you should pull the brains out of your ass. -- Kim Harrison
I feel like run-over crap," I complained.
"You look like run-over crap," Jenks said. "Drink your tea. -- Kim Harrison
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
His attitude, though always bad, has changed since he helped me prep the Pandora charm for Morgan. He thinks I'm falling for her, as ridiculous as that sounds, and he might be tempted to take matters into his hands. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Build: Vookworm, but tough -- Kim Harrison
Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change. -- Kim Harrison
Eloy turned to her, his lip curling when he saw her face, but I hadn't won anything in our verbal pissing match. "Can we please have some blood?"
Winona awkwardly flipped him off with her thick fingers, and I almost applauded. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Love died in the shadows, and it shouldn't cost so much to keep it in the sun. But as Trent would say, anything gotten cheap wouldn't last, so do what you need to do to be happy and deal with the consequences. That if love was easy, everyone would find it. -- Kim Harrison
I held my bag open and he dropped Jenks inside.
"Hey!" the pixy protested, and then, "Tink's little pink dildo, Rache? Haven't you gotten rid of those condoms yet? They got a shelf life, you know. -- Kim Harrison
And I can't read your mind either, just your face. -- Kim Harrison
Oh, Trent and I go back a long way," I said lightly, twirling a curl of my hair about my finger and remembering its new shortness. "We met at camp as children. Sort of romantic when you think about it." I smiled at Trent's suddenly blank look. -- Kim Harrison
I was sure there were demons more dangerous than Minias, but his owing me a favor sounded like the back door into trouble, not the front door out of the same. -- Kim Harrison
You think Ivy's a planner? She has nothing on a motivated elf with too much money. -- Kim Harrison
The shushing of the waves was the heartbeat of the world, ever present, seldom noticed, and linking every moment together from before there was life to now. -- Kim Harrison
Do you have a sleeping bag?"
I stared at him. "No. I lost it in the great salt-dip of '06. -- Kim Harrison
Mistakes can be fixed but if you do it more than once, it's no longer a mistake. -- Kim Harrison
So that's why Ivy always used canvas bags . It wasn't because she was especially eco-minded. They were quiet. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Not everything was legal, but nothing was immoral, and that was my guide these days. -- Kim Harrison
To the guy who finishes my sentences and gets my jokes. Even the lame ones. -- Kim Harrison
Sure, it was nice now, but eventually there would be running and screaming and blood on the floor. -- Kim Harrison
Having been a demon curse, however brief, should leave a mark. A streak of silver hair, or bewitching eyes. Maybe crows on one's roof or a hound from hell at your heel. Blowing out my breath I stood and squinted at my reflection. A black eye. Swell. -- Kim Harrison
I expected it would be the same for me, and I wouldn't show up as a wolf in black tights and a lacy pair of underwear - as amusing as that would be. No way was I going to show them I was a nasty pasty color with freckles. -- Kim Harrison
In a few hours, I'm going to be banished to the surface, my belongings raffled off as novelty items and my living space given to someone else - my reputation destroyed. I'd rather have your head than your soul at this point in my illustrious career. - Al -- Kim Harrison
Okay," I said, resettling myself and looking up.You need the thrill of danger flitted through my mind, and I quashed it. -- Kim Harrison
Yeah, the elf looks good in the sun," Jenks smart-mouthed, the pixy currently sitting on the bottom of my hooped earrings and out of the moderate wind. "When you going to put us all out of your misery and boink him? -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive. -- Kim Harrison
Taking a breath, I stepped into the line to find him standing right where I'd left him, smiling with his hand extended. (Rachel and Al) -- Kim Harrison
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 -- Kim Harrison
This is a witchocracy, not a democracy. Clear? -- Kim Harrison
Don't stereotype, Jenks. HAPA is an equal-opportunity hate group, I said. -- Kim Harrison
I am not going to be the person who completes you," he said, glancing at me and turning away. "You are one messed-up bitch. -- Kim Harrison
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" Tink's titties!" Jenks from any of Kim Harrison's books on The Hollows. (aka Cincinnati,OH)
reply | edit | delete | flag * -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Immediately Trent went back to mowing down those cookies, slowing when he realized I was staring at him. What are we up to now? Ten? -- Kim Harrison
Everyone had to eat, but eating people wasn't polite. -- Kim Harrison
Rache! Glad you're ... Tink loves a duck!" he said, wings clattering. "It stinks of sex in here. God, woman. I leave you alone for one night, and you're humping the ghost." - Jenks to Rachel -- Kim Harrison
Your welcome means more to me, Ivy Alisha Tamwood, than a thousand souls. Watching Rachel work is a wonder of one catastrophe after another. -- Kim Harrison
You're taking classes? That's great. Crime scene etiquette, perhaps? -- Kim Harrison
Jenks watched for a moment from the rim of the bucket, then said, " You look like a porno star on your hands and knees, mopping in your underwear. Push it baby" he moaned. " Push it! -- Kim Harrison
Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
To the guy in the leather jacket -- Kim Harrison
Trent looked me up and down. "Is that all you're going to do?"
My pulse quickened, and I gazed at the front of the basilica where the scratching was coming from. "I might have a snack later if nothing comes through those doors. -- Kim Harrison
But a pawn could become a queen if she reached the end and came back again. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Do you have a finger stick?" she snapped.
"No."
"Then let me cut your finger."
"You're already bleeding," I said. "Use your blood. -- Kim Harrison
You can't stop me. It's the only option we have to get those Weres off Rachel's tail, so unless you have a suggestion, I suggest you shut up. -- Kim Harrison
I snorted, pulling myself in and already knowing what Jenks thought pixies did first best. And it wasn't saving my ass like he told everyone. -- Kim Harrison
Every person has a right to the small things, you see? The little happinesses. After all, those are the ones that make life most worth living. It's what we're fighting for. -- Kim Harrison
For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart. -- Kim Harrison
Ate a chip, then went to the fridge for the dip. Everything was better with sour cream and chives. -- Kim Harrison
The runt will have a juice box.' He turned to Pierce. 'It will make you big and strong, won't it, little fella. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Come on, Jenks," he said, moving him into the hallway. "I've got some clothes you can put on. Falling down is a lot more comfortable when you have something between your ass and the carpet. -- Kim Harrison
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? -- Kim Harrison
There was a sharp crack of splintering paneling, and Newt swore colorfully in Latin. -- Kim Harrison
Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it. -- Kim Harrison
Arms wrapped around me, I looked over the past boxed up and piled haphazardly about, like memories in a person's brain. It was only a matter of knowing where a thought was and dusting it off. -- Kim Harrison
I turned back to the mirror, seeing that there were no lines on it. It was empty. "What happened to my mirror?" I said, bewildered. Then realizing that I was looking at the back of the dumb thing, I swore and turned it over. -- Kim Harrison
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! -- Kim Harrison
But he's Rachel Candy!"
-Both Jenks and Al -- Kim Harrison
Tom is trying to tag a banshee? By himself? Go for it, coffin bait. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
All right, all right! Don't lose your panties. No, wait. You don't have any, do you? -- Kim Harrison
Ivy wanted to do something for me, and if she couldn't give me a hug without her blood lust tainting it, then by God I would let her put that gunk under my eye. -- Kim Harrison
How many mistakes can one life survive? -- Kim Harrison
Oh, my God, when Ivy got it wrong, she really got it wrong. I didn't need a boyfriend. I had all the drama I could stand right here. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
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? -- Kim Harrison
You are the devil to talk to, Rachel," he said curtly. "Will you shut up and listen? -- Kim Harrison
Money drives the world, but when everything falls apart to leave the underpinnings of our life bare to the scrutiny of critics and thieves, the only thing remaining, the only thing that can't be taken away, is the love you hold for the people you care about. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
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! -- Kim Harrison
It had made me strong, but it had left me flawed. -- Kim Harrison
Curfew was in effect, so of course everyone not human was outside dodging cops. -- Kim Harrison
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) -- Kim Harrison
I suddenly realized that a bunch of my friends needed babysitters and vowed to start screening my calls. -- Kim Harrison
Demon summoning wasn't illegal, but my foot in their gut a couple of times might convince them it was a really bad idea. -- Kim Harrison
A year of hell is worth three minutes in heaven. Or so they say. -- Kim Harrison
Yeah, well, if he tries, I'm going to burn his office down to his red stapler. -- Kim Harrison
I trusted him, even with my soul. And he isn't meant for me. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Oh, God, I'm going to be a hundred and sixty with a flower on my ass. -- Kim Harrison
Easy is tasteless and bland -- Kim Harrison
You aren't kidding. But you know, it's likely going to be the only time I'll ever be that skinny and have a fur coat. -- Kim Harrison
I was very introverted. You know, I had my close group of friends, but I really didn't care what the cool kids were doing. -- Kim Harrison
the mad have a grace all their own -- Kim Harrison
Tink's a Disneyland whore!"-Jenks -- Kim Harrison
God, if you ever loved me, open my eyes for me when I'm being this stupid! (Ron) -- Kim Harrison
I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall. -- Kim Harrison
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) -- Kim Harrison
I asked, looking at the jukebox, now totally out of place, like a British police call box on the deck of the Titanic. -- Kim Harrison
I could not believe this. I was going to be hacked to shreds to the accompaniment of applause. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Trust your judgment, baby witch. No one else's. You've got good instincts for someone flakier than my mum's pie crust. (Leprechaun to Rachel) -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Such a pretty pair you make, like matched horses in my stables. -- Kim Harrison
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
A demon was asking me what I wanted.
My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. "What do you want?" he said softly. -- Kim Harrison
I hadn't wished for Trent in my life, but now that I had him, I was more confused, more heartbroken than I'd ever been. Trent was willing to sacrifice everything for me, but I didn't know if I could let him. -- Kim Harrison
I pushed him away, catching Lee's awe that I was not only standing with a demon outside a circle, but that Al was treating me like an equal. Or maybe a favorite pet, I amended as Al caught me when I started to tilt. -- Kim Harrison
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 ... -- Kim Harrison
No," he admitted, and my instincts sang out at his reluctance. "That's across the hall."
Crutch swinging, I started for the door, almost pushing Quen out of my way. "Just over there, you say?" I said, -- Kim Harrison
There might be a charm in the black arts section of the library, but black earth magic used nasty ingredients - like indispensable people parts - and I wasn't going to go there. -- Kim Harrison
Oh yeah. We were all having fun now. -- Kim Harrison
They weren't idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission. -- Kim Harrison
You bet your Grannie's Panties I will. -- Kim Harrison
My name is Bis," he said, "and I was kicked off the basilica because I was spitting on the people coming in. Suck-up little Glissando thinks she knows angel dust from dirt and tattled on me. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'
Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled. -- Kim Harrison
We're going to swim it."
I flipped forward a few pages. "Underwater."
Jenks blinked. "Rache, you gotta stop using that sugar substitute.Under the water? Do you know how cold it is? -- Kim Harrison
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! -- Kim Harrison
Minias smiled. Great. Another charming demon. I sort of prefer the insane ones. -- Kim Harrison
Hope died hard, and the lie was easier to bear. -- Kim Harrison
Men," she said as she took my arm and led me to the brightly lit room. "They forget we need to see the outcome of pain before we willingly put ourselves through it. How else would we suffer nine months to have a beautiful child? We already know we have guts. -- Kim Harrison
Happy endings were never handed out. You had to fight for them, earn them with bruised hearts and sacrifices. And I just couldn't do it right now. It hurt too much when it fell apart. -- Kim Harrison
Like the end of a picnic, all the weenies will be roasted. -- Kim Harrison
Lately I'd begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints. -- Kim Harrison
I like the second better, but the first fits with the vampire watching what she can't have." I blinked. "What he can't have," I amended, flushing. -- Kim Harrison
The I.S. didn't teach its runners how to deal with this. Runners were runners, not murder investigators. They brought their tags in alive, even the dead ones. -- Kim Harrison
The quickest way to a woman's crotch is through her gullet. Can I make you a cake? Big Al to Pierce, then Rachel. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Oh. Shit. I breathed, arms shaking as I tried to push myself up, failing. That's okay. It's nice just to lie here. -- Kim Harrison
Vampires and five-year-olds played by the same rules, and both threw tantrums when they lost. -- Kim Harrison
So I've seen my boys do that a hundred times with the neighboring pixy girls. Give her their favorite seed and be too flustered to tell her what it was. -- Kim Harrison
It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books! he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the small library. (Al) -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
He had tried to smile, but it was broken. -- Kim Harrison
What in Tink's contractual hell are you doing here? -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality. -- Kim Harrison
Was terrified, and logic meant nothing when you were scared. -- Kim Harrison
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
She reeked of tenure -- Kim Harrison
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
Thanks, Mom, I whispered. And with the knowledge that my mom believed in me even if the rest of the world didn't, I headed for the door. -- Kim Harrison
I was having coffee with my bodyguard. I didn't expect to be hunting bad guys until later. Leather before sundown is tacky. -- Kim Harrison
Good rice sticks together, -- Kim Harrison
I'm not going to pick her up and carry her screaming to the basement," Trent said. "It's a workday. Besides, she has a crutch."
"Crutch or no, she's hurt!" Ceri protested.
"I mean," Trent said intently, "she can hit me with it if I do something she doesn't like. -- Kim Harrison
You aren't a demon practitioner?" "No, but they seem to practice me." Trent and Rachel -- Kim Harrison
Life ended, a soul to save," Grace said mournfully. "Decisions age-old are made. Is it choice? Is it fate? Forgiveness or hate? When love is what all of us crave. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Tighter than a straight man's butt cheeks in prison -- Kim Harrison
Adjustment? She called that an adjustment? How about I adjust her right out of existence? -- Kim Harrison
You just click your heels and think there's no place like being pwned. -- Kim Harrison
Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died. -- Kim Harrison
Confused, I asked, "The coven's what?"
"Plumber," Ivy said, looking pale as she leaned on Glenn. "You know. Stops leaks?"
Oh goodie. I'm a leak. -- Kim Harrison
My God, you have beautiful hair in the firelight," he said softly, and I blinked. "It's like your thoughts, all cinnamon and wild untamed. I've always liked your hair. -- Kim Harrison
Even a superhero needs a place to be normal. -- Kim Harrison
If you're somewhere new every day, you feel no accountability. You don't care who you hurt. You do what you want and damn the rest because you won't be there for the fallout. -- Kim Harrison
Damn it all to Disneyland! Where's crap for brains? -- Kim Harrison
Sometimes it takes a two-by-four across your head to realize what you want isn't what you'll end up with if you get it. -- Kim Harrison
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
Living a lie tore at one's being and leaked out in the oddest of places. -- Kim Harrison
Rachel, we've been over this. This is what I do," he said, crumbs of whiten cheese falling from the knife. "Find a way for your lofty, unrealistic ideals to deal with it. -- Kim Harrison
Come on, Rachel!" Jenks shrilled. "You're a badass, not a bad witch! -- Kim Harrison
If they could swing it, most parents visited during meals to try to make their child's hospital room into a piece of the familiar by eating with them, and the kids - without exception - were too kind to tell them it only made home look that much farther away. -- Kim Harrison
I jumped at him with a howl, and Al grabbed me by the neck. I clawed at him, and he casually thunked my head into the wall. -- Kim Harrison
He didn't want Lucy to grow up feeling alone, surrounded by everything and having nothing. -- Kim Harrison
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 -- Kim Harrison
Great power does not corrupt a person, it only brings their true self into the light, -- Kim Harrison
To the man who knows what makes the perfect date night -- Kim Harrison
You have such interesting thoughts. No wonder witches are ephemeral. You drive yourself crazy. You should simply do what you want without the soul-searching. It will be easier in the long run, Rachel Mariana Morgan. -- Kim Harrison
I'd said thank you. And apologized. It was more than I thought I'd ever do.
"You're welcome," he said, his expression lost in the shadows. "I'll see what I can do about the no lying ... thing." And inclining his head, he vanished. -- Kim Harrison
I glanced at the pain charms draped around my neck, thinking I looked like a drunken prostitute at Mardi Gras. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Keep your vampire mitts off me. I'm not your friggin' blood toy. -- Kim Harrison
When desire's sold for freedom/and need exchanged for fame/those choices made in ignorance/turn to bloodstained dreams of shame. -- Kim Harrison
Rose to Rachel:
You cry you get angry then you do something about it. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
I wanted to make decisions on who I loved by who completed me, made me feel good about myself. Who I could love freely and help make a better person by just being there. -- Kim Harrison
They will hurt her just like they hurt you to get it, and I'm not going to let that happen, you dumb little shit. -- Kim Harrison
I didn't mean now," he protested. "I'm not going to raise the child. I'm having enough trouble with Rachel. -- Kim Harrison
Coffee. I could smell coffee. Coffee would make everything better. -- Kim Harrison
Jenks snorted, crumpling up the empty bag and throwing it away. "You can help Rachel by dropping dead."
"That's still an option," said Ivy. -- Kim Harrison
Rachel, what do you do? Put an ad in the paper for trouble?
(Glenn) -- Kim Harrison
Oh, I'm sorry. Did I interrupt some sort of dominance foreplay? -- Kim Harrison
He grinned. That's because pixies are ever-after. We're magic, baby. Just ask Matalina. -- Kim Harrison
Anything worth having is going to be hard -- Kim Harrison
I liked beginnings better than endings. -- Kim Harrison
Easy," Trent said when I stiffened, and he lifted my chin, reading the strain I'd lived with for the last few hours, the fear. "Why is it harder when those we love are in danger than when it's just us?" he whispered, and I blinked fast. I wasn't going to cry, damn it. I wasn't! -- Kim Harrison
Trent's expression became empty, and I pulled away, hating myself.
"Please don't close up," I begged, but his hands had fallen away, and I took them in my own. "Talk to me. -- Kim Harrison
I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds. -- Kim Harrison
Three g's, and an r: Get in, get the info, get out, relocate. -- Kim Harrison
Student food." His eyes went to the tomato on the sill. "Whatever's in the refrigerator over pasta. -- Kim Harrison
Jenks, deep into his honey drunk, gyrated wildly. -- Kim Harrison
Give me a minute to catch my breath," I said, sneaking glances at him. "Then we can head to the car. I need a few more things to make the demon spell, but I'm too tired to do it now." It grated on me to admit it, but it was kinda obvious. -- Kim Harrison
Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity - even if it had killed the cat - is king. -- Kim Harrison
The cookie maker needs someone to look out for him. -- Kim Harrison
That's all kids want to know - that you love them. -- Kim Harrison
On the far side of the human graves. Pink wings in the lowering moon as the earth slipped 'round her silver light. They reached our wall. Our lines were strung. We held our land. What's said is done. -- Kim Harrison
Ms. Vampire Lady, you're all wet. -- Kim Harrison
Inside Junior's it was peaceful. I can change that, I thought dryly, -- Kim Harrison
His eyes went past us to his kids as they descended upon the mouse, who had finally made a dash for the living room and found itself in its own personal hell. -- Kim Harrison
Breaking rules isn't bad when what you're doing is more important than the rule itself -- Kim Harrison
I pushed him back with a finger. Your accent stinks. Go away until you get it right. -- Kim Harrison
Depressed, I gazed at the wall behind Ivy.
Swell. I was going to have to look at a stuffed mink nailed to the wall all night. -- Kim Harrison
Maybe I could be friends with a ghost. I wouldn't be able to kill him. -- Kim Harrison
You're big enough to bite now, mosquito, so shut up. -- Kim Harrison
Death and blood didn't turn on a vampire. Fear and the chance to take blood did. There was a difference. -- Kim Harrison
Get your hand off me," I exclaimed, voice loud with misplaced anger as I yanked away from his grip. "I'm a professional, not some distraught girlfriend." Well, I was that too, but I knew how to act at a crime scene. -- Kim Harrison
Build: Bookworm, but tough -- Kim Harrison
CINCINNATI MORGUE, AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY SERVICE SINCE 1966. -- Kim Harrison
What was it with me and organized beatings, anyway? -- Kim Harrison
Let my office know when you change your mind," he said, then headed for the door, jerking to a stop when Ivy didn't get out of his way.
"Let us know when cherry lollypops come out your ass," Jenks said, -- Kim Harrison
Of course I'm shielding her, you broken feather! -- Kim Harrison
Ivy had loved him, too - deeper, on a gut level, with the strength of the past, not like my new love, based on the idea of a future. -- Kim Harrison
I was cold, hungry, and in a hole in the ground. But at least I had my elven porn, damnit! -- Kim Harrison
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
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. -- Kim Harrison
I am not going to live with regret for not having tried. -- Kim Harrison
I'd rather judge a person on why they make the choices they do rather than the cold facts of what they choose. -- Kim Harrison
Would you like something to drink? I asked, thinking my rusty host skills were going to get a workout this afternoon while dealing with a woman so clearly raised on etiquette and form. -- Kim Harrison
And I might collapse from the cold anyway. How do you stand it, Rache? Tink's titties, I think parts of me fell off. -- Kim Harrison
I want an expresso. Black. But give me the domestic blend. That Turkish crap gives me the runs for a week. - Jenks -- Kim Harrison
Actually, I am kind of busy right now," I drawled as I settled back into the chair and closed my eyes. "You have to make melanin while the sun shines. -- Kim Harrison
This was weird, civilized. Yes, I've come to rob you, sir. / How delightful; won't you have some tea before you do? -- Kim Harrison
Relief spilled into me. He wanted to live. He just didn't know how. -- Kim Harrison
She just threatened to throw the next man who shoots at you out the window. Megan is awake. She offered to help. God, Trent, what is it with you and women? -- Kim Harrison
You're like a five-year-old helping Mommy in the kitchen," Bill muttered, and Michael's mirth vanished. "It would be easier if you were somewhere else, but then I'd have two messes to clean up instead of one." Frustrated, -- Kim Harrison
I took a breath, seeing from across the room the rain on his eyelashes. A sudden need to brush them free filled me. I could almost feel the dampness of the rain on my fingers, how soft it would feel. -- Kim Harrison
Gaily, if you can't demonstrate the ability to keep her alive, then I will
take over her care and get you a dog instead. - Newt -- Kim Harrison
Rache," he said, trying to get into my line of sight. "What more do you need? God to send a telegram?" (Jenks) -- Kim Harrison
That night had been the first time I'd felt alive, the adrenaline and endorphins making my body, still recovering from disease, feel ... normal. It was then that I realized I'd risk anything to feel that way all the time - and most days, I did. -- Kim Harrison
Oh for the sweet humpin' love of Tink! ~ Jenks -- Kim Harrison
I sighed. "And what am I to you, Al?"
"My maid," he said brightly. "Shall we do this? -- Kim Harrison
You try getting through the Hollows traffic with a stoned redhead hanging out the window shouting, 'I'm king of the world!' ~Lee -- Kim Harrison
You think? I snapped, jumping when Newt slammed a side kick into the barrier, her robes swirling dramatically. Great, she knew martial arts on top of everything else. Why not? She'd obviously been around a while. -- Kim Harrison
It's a cat. Boy, you couldn't slip anything past me tonight. -- Kim Harrison
Never hide who you are, -- Kim Harrison
Shove it up your ass and make a breath mint out of it! -- Kim Harrison
You're good with people, and all I know how to do is give good neck. -- Kim Harrison
I'd given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had died - finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in the coffin. -- Kim Harrison
I felt sick. Buying Kisten's and my safety from Piscary was so wrong. But it was either that or deal with a demon, and I'd rather keep my soul clean and let my morals get dingy. -- Kim Harrison
When everything seems to impact everything and there's no easy answer, I ask myself: Will this decision take me closer or farther from you? And then it's so clear. Even if it doesn't make sense at the time. -- Kim Harrison
Come here," she prompted. "You want to do this, yes?"
Not really.
(Newt and Rachel) -- Kim Harrison
Ivy could have been a model. Hell, Ivy could be anything she wanted. Except happy. Ivy had issues. -- Kim Harrison
Tink's a Disney whore!- Jenks -- Kim Harrison
Al leaned close, voice dangerous as he whispered, "We don't forget, Rachel, and it's not as if it was our ancestors who were betrayed. It was us. -- Kim Harrison
It pulled emotion from me I wasn't aware I could feel. A deep painful regret. Unrequited need. -- Kim Harrison
But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease.
Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt ... empty. -- Kim Harrison
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
We were innocent once. How could it have gone so bad? -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
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! -- Kim Harrison
Okay, you drive," she said. "I'll sit with m head hanging out of the window like a golden retriever. -- Kim Harrison
Just let me sleep," she grumbled. "Let me sleep, and I'll sign a paper that you're a fucking angel. -- Kim Harrison
Small steps could make large journeys, if admittedly very slow ones. -- Kim Harrison
Learning to understand those you hate and fear is harder. I -- Kim Harrison
That was humanity's problem right there. they are brain damaged from the early sun -- Kim Harrison
Ivy and I will deal with the uncomfortable situation like we always have ... by ignoring it. It was something we were both good at. -- Kim Harrison
Rachel, you summon demons. You're good at it. Get over it, then find a way to make it work for you. It's not going to go away. -- Kim Harrison
People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room. -- Kim Harrison
I'm not going anywhere with you, you little shoemaker, I said (Rachel to Trent) -- Kim Harrison
Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds. -- Kim Harrison
But I knew Nick. He was too ugly to die. -- Kim Harrison
Tinks titties Rache
Jenks -- Kim Harrison
The energy tasted like books, and I imagined we were still in the semipublic areas. -- Kim Harrison
Silly little vamp, afraid of her feelings. -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Familiars were known for their loose tongues until you cut them out. It was a practice Algaliarept frowned upon. Most of his brethren were bloody plebians. Removing a familiar's tongue completely ruined the nuances of their pleas for mercy. -- Kim Harrison
I can get us a body," Ivy said -- Kim Harrison
Jenks made a face. He turned my son into a thief and broke my partner's heart. Why should I give him a draft of consideration? -- Kim Harrison
Making a spell is easy. It's trusting you did it right that's hard. -- Kim Harrison
I've found that when I'm having trouble solidifying a character or a scene, that music will often free my subconscious just that last little bit to allow me to move forward, and often it's in a direction that I didn't expect, but is 100 percent true to the character. -- Kim Harrison
It smelled like sex and dog in here. But mostly it smelled like sex. -- Kim Harrison
Rachel knew what she was doing. And when she didn't, she could improvise on the fly, coming up with options that left a lot of collateral damage but usually only hurt herself, not the people around her. It was one of the things he would never admit that he admired about her. -- Kim Harrison
Listen before you draw your battle lines, lest you alienate your allies. -- Kim Harrison
You look like the vamp who bled the cat. -- Kim Harrison
Was using "dead-man's-toe" morally okay if the man's relatives had knowingly sold him for parts? -- Kim Harrison
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. -- Kim Harrison
Anyone ever tell you that you look like an orange in that jumpsuit? Auntie Lenore? More like Auntie Clementine. -- Kim Harrison
My office is trashed," he grumped as he squished across his damp carpet and took the coffee that I was holding out to him. "Why are you smiling? My fish are dead. -- Kim Harrison
Suddenly I felt vastly underdressed. Hell, even the woman dressed down as a hobo had diamonds on. -- Kim Harrison
