Million Dollar Demon Quotes

“Power doesn’t corrupt. Power brings what we are to the top, is all,” I said, thinking of all the ugly I had fought against. “Be it good or bad.”
― Kim Harrison, Million Dollar Demon

“Down in the earth, buried deep. Down where the demons sleep,” I spoke/sang with him, our voices eerily similar. “Down where God can’t speak. Black coin spent, our soul to keep. So as you sow, so shall you reap. So as you sow, your children weep. Just killing time, as black coin seeps.”
― Kim Harrison, Million Dollar Demon

“So, just for gits and shiggles,”
― Kim Harrison, Million Dollar Demon

“All your knowledge is as useful as a twig if you’re afraid of the consequences of using it.”
― Kim Harrison, Million Dollar Demon

“We all change. But that doesn’t mean you have to lose what makes you, you.”
― Kim Harrison, Million Dollar Demon

“Forgiveness was hard. Letting go was hard. Staying a sullen, angry-at-the-world, all-powerful, poor-me demon was easy.”
― Kim Harrison, Million Dollar Demon

“Sure, she was batshit crazy, but I had a rep for taking suicidal stands on hills just to irritate people.”
― Kim Harrison, Million Dollar Demon

“we had honor once. Long ago. When we were at our lowest. When we had nothing to put in our bellies but acorns and only rags between us and the cold. We had drive then. We had purpose. We were more than we are now when we had less. I find it odd—the things we lost when we gained supremacy over those who subjugated us. Power corrupts all it touches.”
― Kim Harrison, Million Dollar Demon

“But I remembered what it was like to have the world take everything, leaving you with ugly, empty spaces where comfort had once been.”
― Kim Harrison, Million Dollar Demon

“He had acknowledged my feelings were legitimate, taken ownership of his actions, apologized, and promised to be aware of it. If I was going to live in this world, I had to let go of the hurt and move on.”
― Kim Harrison, Million Dollar Demon

“Practice . . . thou art my shield and sword.”
― Kim Harrison, Million Dollar Demon

“Sit there and eat your chili like a nice vampire, or she’ll pull your soul out and give it to her gargoyle.”
― Kim Harrison, Million Dollar Demon