Ilona Andrews Quotes

The newcomer struck him as an enterprising sort of man. The kind that would slit your throat for a box of tissues in your bag while you slept.

The only people who can have normal are the ones unaffected by all the fucked-up shit that happens around them. - Curran

The porch light came on and Aunt B swung the door open. Middle-aged and stout, with graying hair rolled into a bun, she looked like she should be baking cookies, not ruling a brood of social deviants...

The problem with all men, and werewolves in particular, was their odd perspective. Sean viewed the gash across his ribs as a scratch. I viewed it as an open wound made by a monomolecular blade able to...

The problem with honesty was that it gave your opponent ammunition to use against you.

The rim of the cup shuddered. Her fingers were shaking.

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.

The thing is, people have a remarkable potential to injure you, but they also have a great power to help you heal.

The top bag popped, and a metric ton of old lasagna spilled onto my pants. The stench of soured spaghetti sauce washed over me. Ew. Of all the trash from this whole giant building, I had to step on a...

The trick here was indifference, I decided as I took my sweet time coming down the stairs. Act cool. Detached.Something potent and violent boiled inside me and I strained every nerve in my body to kee...

The world was going crazy. Nothing left to do but hold on and yell Wheee! at strategic moments.

The world’s pulse skipped a beat. Magic flooded in. Yes. I grinned and grabbed the blanket. Onward, my noble steed. To our inevitable doom and gory death. Thirty

There was another message and I had a pretty good idea who it was from.For a while I sat in the kitchen and petted the attack poodle, deciding whether I should listen to the message or just erase it....

There was light in Erra. There was also darkness, and when I looked deep into both, I recognized myself.

There was more to it than that—my mother's face had feminine gentleness. Mine didn't, at least not when compared to hers. If we were to stand side by side in a room full of people, I wouldn't get a si...

There was tartle, a Scottish word for the panicked pause you experience when you have to introduce someone, but you don’t remember their name. There was backpafeifengesicht, a German term for a face y...

They broke him, Jim said suddenly, a barely contained growl clawing at his words. They broke the boy. Even if he survives, he’ll never be the same.

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

This is going to suck, Curran said. It will suck much less if you come with me. You want me to level, here it is: I need you. I need you because I love you. Three months without you will be hell.

This is what it would be like, I realized. We could come home to each other every night.It didn't have to be all blood and gore and fancy dinners. It could also be this, and this felt so good.