Top 500 Ilona Andrews Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “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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452. “Superstitions add texture to life.”

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

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

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

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

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460. “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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461. “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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462. “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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463. “Jesu, Helen, turn the horses!”

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464. “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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465. “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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466. “I picked up the phone and dialed Andrea’s extension. “Yes?” “He glued the chair to my ass.” Silence.”

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

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469. “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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470. “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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471. “I’m sorry. You should make my life hell for the next hundred years.”

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

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

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475. “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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476. “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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477. “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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478. “Do men often tell you you’re enchanting?” “No. Men often tell me I hit very hard.” Hint, hint.”

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

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

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482. “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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483. “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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484. “Are you done?” he asked. “Just getting started.” I was so brave over the phone.”

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485. “Some things were constant in the universe. Two and two didn’t always equal four, but every water-based species at some point had heated water and thrown some plants into it.”

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

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

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489. “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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490. “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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491. “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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492. “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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493. “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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494. “Do you want the real answer or the one you’re comfortable with?” “I’ll take the truth.”

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495. “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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496. “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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497. “I tried to picture a female version of Jim and got Jim in a dress instead. The image was disturbing.”

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

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499. “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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500. “Eight years had passed. Everything about me had changed, but I was still in love with Derek Gaunt.”

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