Top 500 Ilona Andrews Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Baby, you’re not the tantrum type. You are the scary-smile-and-stabbing type.”

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452. “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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453. “No challenge, no matter how insignificant, can be left unanswered. Even a cry in the wilderness must be acknowledged, because someone might have heard it.”

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454. “Kate’s Speciality: Killing things, with much bloodshed. Talking trash, infuriating authority. Driving Beast Lord crazy.”

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

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456. “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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457. “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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458. “The dark scary servant of all evil was on his way to rescue me. Somehow that thought failed to make me warm and fuzzy.”

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

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

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462. “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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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. “The responsible thing to do, the Head of the House thing to do, would be to send her on her way. This wasn’t our fight and there was no profit to be made here. We were an emerging House, and we had neither the financial resources nor the manpower of MII. If I helped her, I would be putting all of us in danger. But she was a friend. She’d kept us all from dying at Nevada’s wedding, and when I looked at her, my chest hurt.”

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465. “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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466. “I so didn’t need another outbreak of Rogan fever.”

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467. “She has a high opinion of herself,” Andrea said. “Oh yes. When she gets into a car, her ego has to ride shotgun.”

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

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

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470. “Jesu, Helen, turn the horses!”

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471. “And most of the time, I like being by myself. But when I look into my future, I see no family, no husband, no children. No warmth. I just see myself getting older and more scarred.”

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

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474. “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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475. “Superstitions add texture to life.”

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

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477. “What was wrong with my life and how did I get to this place?”

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

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479. “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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480. “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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481. “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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482. “Two pairs of eyes blinked at her from angelic faces: Georgie’s blue and Jack’s amber. Hooligans, both of them.”

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483. “They call the undead inhuman, not realizing the irony: only humans are capable of inhumanity.”

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

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

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487. “Mad Rogan saw me and smiled. And my mind went right into the gutter.”

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488. “Hi. And what kind of screwed-up beastie would you be?”

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489. “I believe I’ve met your grandfather, the Bloody Butcher of Odar.” “That’s correct.” “I remember now. A delightful man, wonderfully dry sense of humor.” Arland blinked. “My grandfather has been called many names in his lifetime. Delightful was not one of them. He remembers you also. You tried to poison him.” Caldenia waved her fingers. “I’ve tried to poison everyone at one time or another. Don’t take it personally.”

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490. “That’s what marriage was, at the core – the exclusive right to spend as much time with someone you loved as they were willing to give.”

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491. “Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it!”

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492. “If I lost him here, to this idiotic fight, after I fought and guarded him for two weeks, after I cried and thought he was dying, I would find him in the afterlife and I would murder him again.”

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493. “Adam’s eyes narrowed. “I’ve looked you up. You’re small potatoes, Snowflake.”

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494. “Cute. I think I would prefer to be stabbed in the eye rather than be called cute.”

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495. “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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496. “I smell bacon! Penelope, did you know there is a handsome man in our kitchen?”

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497. “For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely. It stabs at you, almost like a physical pain, and you feel both deprived and angry, deprived because you wish to be with that person, and angry because their absence brings you misery. It’s a strange feeling, akin to desperation, a feeling that makes you wait by the phone even though you know that the call is an hour away.”

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498. “The rabbis paled. I’d managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.”

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499. “Aunt B walked out onto the helipad wearing loose yoga pants. “I’m just here to stretch. Kate, want to help?” “Sure.” Thirty seconds later, as I was flying through the air, I decided that this wasn’t the best idea.”

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500. “I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let it all go. No need to hide.”

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