Top 500 Ilona Andrews Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “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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452. “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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453. “I don’t want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate.”

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454. “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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455. “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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456. “It’s funny how loud horrified silence can be. Curran laughed.”

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

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458. “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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459. “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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460. “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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461. “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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462. “Superstitions add texture to life.”

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

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

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467. “He groaned and I saw his face. “Curran!” I would’ve preferred a homicidal lunatic. Oh, wait...”

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

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469. “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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470. “And the next time you choose to project into my dreams, do keep your clothes on.” He smiled. It was a very male, self-aware smile, not just sexual but carnal. The predatory look in his eyes turned ravaging. I felt the need to grab a napkin and hold it in front of me like a shield. “I can project, but I would have to be next to you to do it.” Oh crap.”

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471. “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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472. “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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473. “Jesu, Helen, turn the horses!”

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

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475. “The Order of Merciful Aid provided merciful aid, usually on the edge of a blade or the burn of a bullet.”

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476. “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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477. “Great, now I’ve turned into a manga character who repeated everything everyone said.”

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478. “Prime or no Prime, five-year-old girls were scary. I babysat my sisters when they were that age. It still gave me nightmares.”

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479. “Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.”

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480. “How did it feel, Herald?” The memory of power ripping from her in a torrent surfaced in her mind, followed by a spike of pain as she said the power word after her incantation had paved the way. She heard the sound of Adams’ bones breaking and patted Peanut’s nose. “How did it feel?” The Herald of Atlanta smiled. “It felt good.”

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481. “For example, if a starving man pulls a gun on you and you get the upper hand, you will likely let him go because you will feel sorry for him. That’s the kind of person you are.” “And what kind of person are you?” His face was hard. “The kind who shoots first.”

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482. “Well,” Caldenia said. “Nobody can say that this siege is boring.”

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483. “Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring hikers out in the Broken into thinking he was Bigfoot.”

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484. “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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485. “If you’re really hard up, I can introduce you to my grandmother. She’s a fan.” Adam blinked. “She doesn’t typically sleep with pretty young things, but she would make an exception in your case. You might even learn a trick or two.”

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486. “It a dude and a girl, and the house and wooo scary things happen and then they kill everything.”

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487. “Do men often tell you you’re enchanting?” “No. Men often tell me I hit very hard.” Hint, hint.”

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488. “Why the rifle? Everybody knows you can’t shoot.” Who were these everybodies and would they like to stand in front of me, preferably within ten feet, so I could discuss this issue in greater detail? “I can shoot just fine.” I just missed eighty percent of the time.”

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489. “Baby, you’re not the tantrum type. You are the scary-smile-and-stabbing type.”

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490. “You want an excuse for your failure and so you found someone to blame. If you survived, you would always be dirt, ground under someone else’s boot.”

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

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

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494. “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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495. “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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496. “Do you want the real answer or the one you’re comfortable with?” “I’ll take the truth.”

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497. “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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498. “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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499. “Greedy can be bought, timid can be frightened, smart can be persuaded, but the zealots are immune to money, fear, or reason.”

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500. “If I didn’t know him and I was driving by, I would’ve stopped to get a second look, trying to figure out who that scary hot bastard was.”

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