Quotes from Kim Harrison

It was as if a part of me had died, accepting that I couldn't be who I wanted, so I had to work at making who I was someone I could live with.

Hysterics won't help." "Don't tell me what to do!" I exclaimed, my knees starting to shake. "I think best when I'm having hysterics. Just shut up and let me have them!

A stray strand of Ivy's black hair was hitting my face as I rode behind her.

Practice . . . thou art my shield and sword.

shimmered under his tight jaw

No one in the movies ever looks up until the saliva starts dripping down.

If the van's a rockin', don't come a knockin'!" Jenks said, gyrating beside me.

I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.

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.

'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.

'Dead Witch Walking' is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati.

How many mistakes can one life survive?

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.

she had given me a piece of what made her life sane.

Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died.

I just want my name back so my life can go back to chaotic and weird instead of chaotic and desperate.

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.

I got it this time, Daddy Warbucks," I said.

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.

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.

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

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.

...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.

Yes, but . . ." She hesitated, her gaze finally coming to me. "I survived because I fell in love." With you was unspoken.