Top 500 Ilona Andrews Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “I missed you,” he said, his lips stretching into a slow, lazy smile. The ice in his eyes began to melt. “Did you miss me, Nevada?” He said my name. “No.” “Not even a little bit?” “No. Never thought of you.” Just because I usually chose not to lie didn’t mean I couldn’t. Rogan grinned and all of my thoughts went to the wrong places. He was almost unbearably handsome when he smiled.”

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452. “What the hell did this Curran do to you? Killed your master, stole your girl, burned down your castle? What?”

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453. “I picked up the phone and dialed Andrea’s extension. “Yes?” “He glued the chair to my ass.” Silence.”

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454. “He didn’t do it because his religion told him to murder people. He didn’t do it because he couldn’t control himself. He did it out of pure selfish greed, and he didn’t feel the least bit upset by it. I’d rather take on a demonic horde any day. The.”

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455. “Does it involve breaking and entering?” A little smile stretched Raphael’s lips. “I see His Majesty made a move. Has he asked you to make him dinner yet?” I growled. “This isn’t about me and Curran.”

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456. “I would really like to know”, he said with genuine curiosity. “The next time I kill someone, I’d like to do it in a way that doesn’t freak you out.”

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457. “I would have to stop at a local shelter and possibly PetSmart. They had silent, stealthy, vicious predators available for adoption.”

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458. “He’d laugh in my face, then I’d slice him to ribbons and then he’d break my neck.”

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459. “Are you done?” he asked. “Just getting started.” I was so brave over the phone.”

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460. “Curran, please don’t bite his head off.” “Why?” “Because it’s illegal. Technically you assaulted him first when you threw him across the lawn.” “I didn’t throw him very far.” I rolled my eyes. “I could’ve thrown him straight up and let him land on the pavement.” “That would also be illegal.” “You keep bringing this ‘illegal’ thing up as if it means something to me.”

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461. “They say the dead have no memories and know no pain.” George’s voice was barely above a whisper, but somehow it was louder than the pleas of the corpses. “It’s not that way for me.”

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462. “If I came with you, I’d have to answer uncomfortable questions. I ask questions, I don’t answer them.” “What kind of questions?” “Why were you in a vehicle with Kate, alone? What were you wearing? What was she wearing? How long were you there? Did you do something or did you talk? What was the nature of your discussion? Could this trip have been avoided?”

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463. “Sentient beings are spectacular liars. We are gifted with an unparalleled ability to deny things that make our life unpleasant. We even pretend death isn’t a certainty, because contemplating our own mortality drives us mad.”

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464. “It’s funny how loud horrified silence can be. Curran laughed.”

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465. “Amy,” Elsie Moore said in her crackling voice, her gaze fixed on Declan. “I want you to get me a new bear. A blond one.”

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

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467. “Let’s play who can be a better killer. My sword and I love this game.”

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468. “The kind of eyes that jumped from a woman’s dreams right into her morning and made trouble in the marriage bed.”

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469. “First, it took both of us to kill that thing, and if it reinvents itself again, it will take both of us again. I’m not leaving you alone with it. Second, if you try to physically carry me to the car, I will resist and bleed more. Third, you can possibly stuff me in the car against my will, but you can’t make me drive.” He snarled. “Argh! Why don’t you ever do anything I ask you to?” “Because you don’t ask. You tell me.” We glared at each other.”

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470. “Being human in our world is synonymous with being included into the framework of society.”

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471. “Maybe I should drive,” Troy said. “She knows what she’s doing,” Mad Rogan said. I sniffed. “What?” “The fragrance of a genuine compliment from Mad Rogan. So rare and sweet.”

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472. “Should I bring my own chains this time? Or do you have bigger plans, and this is some sort of freaky murder foreplay” – why did the word foreplay just come out of my mouth? – “and I’ll end up cut up into small pieces inside some freezer at the end? I can just spray myself with mace and shoot myself in the head now and save you the trouble.”

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473. “And you’re not hurt? Nothing’s broken?” “No.” “Oh good.” Mad Rogan sank a vicious punch into Adam’s jaw. Adam fell to his knees, his mouth bloody. “How about now, Adam? Anything hurt now?”

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474. “Thank you,” I said to Linus. “Of course. This is what I’m here for. It’s my function as your witness.” He grinned again. “Besides, things around you have a way of turning interesting. I do hate to be bored.”

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475. “People do horrible things in the name of keeping things just the way they are.” “Where.”

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476. “I had been hugged by a giant, superintelligent, pacifist bear. I could do this. I could do anything.”

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477. “He focused on me completely, the same way he did when he asked me a question and waited for an answer. It was almost impossible to look away. If he ever fell in love – which probably wasn’t possible, given that he was likely a psychopath – his would be the kind of devotion people fantasized about.”

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478. “Those we love know us the best. They know all the right places to strike.”

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

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480. “Derek favored his left side. His horse refused to bear him. I couldn’t blame the horse. I wouldn’t want his demonic, undead-blood-smeared, wolf-smelling ass riding me, either. But it made us slow.”

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481. “Why could nothing with Kate be simple? Why couldn’t Jim ever just come by to tell me that he had bowled a perfect game or benched a personal best. Maybe finally asked that weird tiger girl out.”

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482. “Tall, with skin the color of rich coffee, and dressed all in black, Jim looked like he was carved from a block of solid muscle. Logic said that at some point he must’ve been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, “There shall be a badass,” and Jim sprung into existence, fully formed, complete with clothes, and ready for action.”

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483. “How is it that Raphael made more holes in you than in swiss cheese, but your assholeness survived?” “Raphael doesn’t have a knife big enough to kill my assholeness.”

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484. “Knocking, it’s a thing,” I told him. “You make a fist, lift it, and gently hit the door to let the person inside know you are out there.”

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485. “How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn’t scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered the most to me?”

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486. “Superstitions add texture to life.”

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487. “Jesu, Helen, turn the horses!”

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488. “On a scale from one to ten, the Pack was eleven and everything else a one.”

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489. “The beasties dashed left, rounded the corner, and stopped before a square foot-wide vent secured by a metal grate. “Use the small tooth,” Cornelius intoned. “Open the burrow.” “I’m in a Disney movie,” Augustine said, his face disgusted.”

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490. “If we agree to your proposal, you’ll expect us to abide by your contract, which may require us to compromise our ethics.”

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491. “I’m going to find Julie and I’ll ground her ass until she forgets what the sun looks like, and then I’ll go over to that school and pull their legs out.”

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492. “Okay,” Juke said. “Your horse is a donkey, your poodle is a giant wolf breed, and your boyfriend is whatever the hell he is. You have problems.”

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493. “I wouldn’t be able to do anything with my vampire horde except make it run around in a herd, but it would be a very impressive herd.”

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494. “I tried to picture a female version of Jim and got Jim in a dress instead. The image was disturbing.”

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

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496. “If he ever becomes an issue, I could eat him. He looks delicious.” “Thank you, but that won’t be necessary.” And that wasn’t creepy. Not at all. Caldenia smiled. “You will be surprised how difficult it is to get rid of a human body. I’d say he is perhaps a hundred and seventy pounds? That’s a lot of flesh to manage. We could freeze it. He’d feed me for at least three months.”

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497. “If you prefer, I can acquire a windowless creeper van, and we can huddle in it and eat greasy take out.”

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498. “Do you want the real answer or the one you’re comfortable with?” “I’ll take the truth.”

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499. “Does Strawberry Shortcake know you stole her horse? She will be berry, berry angry with you.” I.”

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500. “It’s not your job to die for your Pack! It’s your job to make the other bastards die for theirs.”

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