Randi Harper

“How do you deal with it? How do you keep from falling apart? That—What happened to them is horrible. How can a person do that to another?” Rose took a slow breath. “You cry, you get angry, then you do something about it.” I watched her leave, the clack of her quick heels sounding sharp before the door closed. Yeah. I can do that.”
― Kim Harrison, The Good, the Bad, and the Undead

“You fear me, because you don't know what I am. I look like a woman, I sound like a man, and your reason tells you the sum total is impossible!”
― Anonymous

“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.”
― Kim Harrison, The Witch With No Name

“It was warm in the summer of 1945; the windows were always open and the screens were not very good. One day the Mark II stopped when a relay failed. They finally found the cause of the failure: inside one of the relays, beaten to death by the contacts, was a moth. The operator carefully fished it out with tweezers, taped it in the logbook, and wrote under it “first actual bug found.”
― Kathleen Broome Williams, Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea