Ilona Andrews Quotes

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“Beautiful I would never be. Striking, that I could manage.”

“I hadn’t crossed the line. I’d ridden an elephant up to it and run back and forth along its edge while a mariachi band played in the background, but I hadn’t crossed it.”

“No. I don't go through your things. I just come once in a while to make sure you're in one piece. I like knowing you're safe, asleep in your bed. I haven't stolen anything…”

“Curran and I mixed about as well as glycerin and nitric acid: put us together, shake a bit, and hit the deck as we exploded.”

“One doesn’t let her fiancé fight a horde of ghouls by himself. Some things were just not done.”

“Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she’d hook me up with a clue”

“Did the Order return your sense of humor as part of the severance package?”

“It could be worse," he said finally. "Efrenia married an arsonist. Jake's wife is a kleptomaniac. I suppose, a psychopathic spree killer isn't that odd of a choice, considering.”

“I can buy your contract.” “No, you can’t. Any sale of our mortgage requires my consent, and I won’t consent to it.” He grinned. “You don’t want to work under me?” “I’m not even going to dignify that with an answer.”

“Kate had never met a person she didn't want to protect, preferably by hacking at the hostile parties with her sword.”

“Yep.” Eloquence ’R’ Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic—safer that way.”

“The door swung open and Kate walked in. Her jeans and T-shirt were splattered with blood and she was carrying a severed vampire head. The T-shirt has a smiley face on it.”

“You replaced me with a shaved poodle?”

“He’s got mad skills.”

Derek’s eyebrows crept up.

“He can vomit and urinate at the same time and he doesn’t make fun of my car.”

“Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built into their very core.”

“She who showed weakness to teenagers would be picked on to death. True fact of life.”

“I raised my foot and deliberately stomped on the bridge. "This is my foot. I put it down. Deal with it.”

“You call that evening the odds? You demolished them."
Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one."
"I noticed."
"I promised to share," he told her. "Manners are very important in the Weird. Lying would be quite impolite.”

“Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.”

“Juke glanced into her cup before tipping it down to her mouth. "Screw you!"
"Now come on, sugar, you know I don't swing that way."
"Whatever!”

“Hugh should’ve brought a banner with I AM BAD stitched on it in gold.”

“Julie was an issue riding on an issue and using a third issue for a whip.”

“I will kill him.”

“Erra’s eyebrows rose. “You’d have to go through me first.”

I shrugged. “I have to do something for a warm-up.”

She laughed softly. “That’s the spirit. I do think you might be my favorite niece.”

“The stairs ended. I wished I knew the jackass who’d made the staircase so short. I’d throw him down the damn steps so he could count them with his head.”

“Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers.”

“You will show that thing to me and from now on, I will deal with them."

I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. "I'm sorry, I must've missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me.”

“You sure you don’t want to kiss me good-bye, baby?”

“It's a party house."
"I hope for your sake it's a very tame party." If he brought me to some sort of sex orgy, he would fly right through one of those pretty windows, headfirst.”

“Every woman should be told she's attractive. Men are seduced by their eyes, women by their ears." Saiman”

“The concepts of right or wrong are always consequential. It can’t be situational or it’s not right or wrong.”

“I’m a rat,’’ Robert said. ‘’I’m not going into a reptile’s mouth.’’
Oh boy. Fine time to develop phobias”

“Settle down, Princess. It’s not my first time.”

“There are only two things that can screw this up for us: you and me."
"Then we're doomed for sure.”

“An evil light sparked in his eyes. "You could always go for Plan B."

"Pound everyone to a bloody pulp until they shut up and cooperate?"

"Exactly."

-Curran and Kate”

“Living in your dreams meant bitter disappointment when you woke up.”

“No matter what happens, you will always be Pack. Because you have that loyalty and restraint. Not human, not whatever, but Kate. Unique and different, but not separate.”

“I was the badass Consort and he was the grim Pack’s executioner. Hugging him in the hallways would be entirely inappropriate.”

“I don’t see what the big deal is.”

“It’s a sword made out of your grandmother’s bones, Kate.”

I shrugged.”

“He stepped forward, took a deep breath, and doubled over in a sneezing fit. My werewolf was allergic to tortoises. Why me?”

“They dismissed me as a peasant, I dismissed them as shallow, and we were all happy like that.”

“Oh, Gods."
His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake.”

“I rode out of the stables on top of an eight-foot-tall donkey that looked like she had robbed a Holstein cow and was now wearing the stolen clothes.”

“Seducing him in the tub smelling of vinegar was out of the question. There had to be some boundaries.”

“He said, 'Yeah, but will I get chicks? In truckloads?”

“The Dude just pounded his way in a straight line, convinced that the lion was a figment of his imagination and that the vampire ahead of him was just Grendel's deformed mutant brother.”

“The good doctor put a spoon of tea into my honey." "You're drinking tea a honey badger made," Jim said. "What did you expect?”

“People can snap. People have a limit. And some people are just plain nuts.”

“Technically, the dance worked best when done naked, but I didn't feel like prancing in the nude into Morrigan Hound's arms. I'm sure he'd be thrilled to see me.”

“Do you ever think of anything
but sex?”
“Yes, I do. Sometimes I think of waking up next to you. Or making you laugh.”

“Yep, Atlanta was burning. Again.”