Top 500 Ilona Andrews Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “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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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. “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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454. “I’m sorry. You should make my life hell for the next hundred years.”

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455. “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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456. “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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457. “People do horrible things in the name of keeping things just the way they are.” “Where.”

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458. “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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459. “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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460. “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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461. “Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.”

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

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

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

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466. “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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467. “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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468. “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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469. “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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470. “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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471. “Cuddles screamed. It wasn’t a braying noise, it was an ear-slapping shriek of pure donkey outrage, like someone got hold of a foghorn and tried to strangle it.”

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

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474. “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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475. “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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476. “Some people in the world only saw in black and white. They were driven by fear. They had learned how to survive in their little corner of the world and they saw any change as a threat to their survival.”

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477. “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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478. “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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479. “What the hell did this Curran do to you? Killed your master, stole your girl, burned down your castle? What?”

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

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

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487. “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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488. “He’d have to stalk her, he decided. Carefully and patiently.”

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489. “Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers.”

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490. “I don’t know if you heard, but I kind of run this place.”

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491. “Let’s take down the gold leaf,” Caldenia said. “Elegance is never ostentatious, and there is nothing more bourgeois than covering everything in gold. It screams that one has too much money and too little taste, and it infuriates peasants. A palace should convey a sense of power and grandeur. One should enter and be awestruck. I’ve found the awe tends to cut down on revolts.”

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492. “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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493. “Every cell in her ached, as if her whole body had been through such a long and grueling punishment that it simply gave up and now wallowed in self-pity and pain.”

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494. “In human history whenever one social group enslaved another, the slaves suffered until they could take no more, and it always ended in an explosion of violence.”

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495. “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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496. “I don’t care if he is Curran. In your ward, you are god.”

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497. “Grandma shrugged. “Framed. A man that pretty can’t be a murderer.” Mother stared at her. “Penelope, I’m seventy-two years old. You let me enjoy my fantasy.”

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498. “No offense, right. “No offense” stood for “I’m going to insult you, but you can’t be mad at me.”

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499. “After I chased the werewolf and the vampire out of my office, I changed my clothes.”

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500. “Two years? That’s entirely too long. If you want, we can take care of that. After two years it’s pure therapy.”

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