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Harpy Quotes

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Rick Riordan
“Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America.”
Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

Thea Harrison
“All of Dragos’s sentinels were mean and barbaric and sexy. Even that weird harpy-bitch Aryal, who she might have a teensy girl crush on. You know, in a totally hetero kind of way.”
Thea Harrison, Storm's Heart

Thea Harrison
“When it was her turn to say good-bye, Aryal said, "Don't do anything I wouldn't do."

Niniane opened and closed her mouth. She said, "I have no idea how to respond to that.”
Thea Harrison, Storm's Heart

Barbara T. Cerny
“Then it kissed me—not as a man would kiss a lover, not with tenderness or even passion. This was a kiss that stole the soul of men. Revulsion at this creature’s kiss was instantly replaced by the warmth stealing through my veins, as if my missing blood were being replenished and contrived to heal me. I craved to keep kissing the beast. My entire being awakened to that kiss feeding me ecstasy, feeding me life.”
Barbara T. Cerny, The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched

Virginia Woolf
“...a leering, sneering obscene little harpy...”
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Lita Burke
“Let us fly, Madam Harpy Queen. Show me how you dance on the wind.”
Lita Burke, Ephraim's Curious Device

Rick Riordan
“Wrong body. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, directed by Don Siegel, 1956."
I did not like being compared to a black-and-white horror film, but I'd just been told not to argue with the harpy.”
Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb

“The harpy wants to win, which means a man must lose. She wants justice, which means a man must be punished. She wants space that could be taken by a man. Are we really willing to make that sacrifice?

What makes a woman's ambition predatory, we are told, is that it overflows its natural bounds. It treads on the lands that men have marked as theirs.”
Jess Zimmerman, Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

Neil Davies
“Claws grabbed his head from behind, curving round his face, serrated talons gouging into his eyes”
Neil Davies, The Village Witch