Top 500 Ilona Andrews Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Look at my big teeth. I’m an apex predator. My genetic material is awesome.”

— Ilona Andrews

102. “You are most definitely crazy,” Derek said. “But in a deranged, endearing way.”

— Ilona Andrews

103. “Just saying, you have to pull your own weight. A hot body and flirting will only get you so far.”

— Ilona Andrews

104. “I like home. It’s warm and there are books.”

— Ilona Andrews

105. “And men my prophet wail deride!”

— Ilona Andrews

106. “A wise man once said, “A human mind is the place where emotion and reason are locked in perpetual combat. Sadly for our species, emotion always wins.” I really liked that quote. It explained why, even though I was reasonably intelligent, I kept finding myself doing something really stupid. And it sounded much better than “Nevada Baylor, Total Idiot.”

— Ilona Andrews

107. “Okay, tough guy. Let’s see what you’ve got.”

— Ilona Andrews

108. “You sure you don’t want me to stay? I’ll make you coffee and ask you about your day.”

— Ilona Andrews

109. “It’s a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.”

— Ilona Andrews

110. “Curran and I mixed about as well as glycerin and nitric acid: put us together, shake a bit, and hit the deck as we exploded.”

— Ilona Andrews

111. “No.” Roman got up off his chair. “The wedding night is for you and Curran. The wedding is for everyone else and it’s the price you pay so you can get to the wedding night.”

— Ilona Andrews

112. “Life was too short and ended too suddenly. If you didn’t take advantage of what you had today, tomorrow it might be ripped from you.”

— Ilona Andrews

113. “When in doubt and in need of information, find a snitch and squeeze him. That was one of the very few investigative techniques I was aware of. As a matter of fact, that and the “annoy principals involved until the guilty party decides to kill you” pretty much summed it up for me. Move over, Sherlock.”

— Ilona Andrews

114. “I love you, and you’re the measure of my wrath. Declan.”

— Ilona Andrews

115. “Help me, I can’t breathe, your ego is pushing all the air out of the room.”

— Ilona Andrews

116. “Only Celts would use nine letters to make one sound.”

— Ilona Andrews

117. “I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.”

— Ilona Andrews

118. “Is there anything in the legends about a topaz called the Wolf Diamond? A large yellow gem maybe?” I asked. Dali wrinkled her forehead. “Topaz is associated with Brihaspati – Jupiter.” “The Roman god?” Jim frowned. “No, the planet. Honestly, Jim, the world doesn’t revolve around the Greco-Roman pantheon.”

— Ilona Andrews

119. “We are family. You will always have a place in my house. I won’t abandon you... You have people, Julie. You are not alone.”

— Ilona Andrews

120. “Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built into their very core.”

— Ilona Andrews

121. “First, we fight the battle, then we win the war.”

— Ilona Andrews

122. “Shave that jaw, brush that hair, tone down the crazy in the eyes, and he would have to fight women off with that crossbow.”

— Ilona Andrews

123. “Maybe I should roll down the window to let some of the sexual tension out.”

— Ilona Andrews

124. “At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the energy and skill of others. Nothing more.”

— Ilona Andrews

125. “I’d give him a cup of coffee and a big helping of a knuckle sandwich. Generosity was a virtue and I was in the mood to be extremely virtuous.”

— Ilona Andrews

126. “Some men got excited by white lace and a translucent negligee. My love muffin got excited by a woman dressed to murder. There was probably something deeply twisted about that. Lucky for me, negligees were never my thing.”

— Ilona Andrews

127. “There is nothing you can offer me,” she said. “Oh, I don’t know. You might change your mind. You’re like me, Victoria.” He grinned. “You like to do things that make life interesting. We both do so hate to be bored.”

— Ilona Andrews

128. “I had an appointment with a sexual deviant and I didn’t want to be late.”

— Ilona Andrews

129. “Yes, I’m too mad to punish you right now. We’ll talk about it when we get home. Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on dry clothes, and get the guns. We’re going to Wal-Mart.”

— Ilona Andrews

130. “Having a fling with you doesn’t appeal to me. You’re handsome, but you’re too inexperienced to be good in bed. Having ridden many horses doesn’t make you a good rider; it just proves that you can’t recognize a good one or don’t know how to keep her.”

— Ilona Andrews

131. “The four words of power. Obey, Kill, Protect, and Die. Words so primal, so dangerous, so powerful that they commanded the raw magic itself.”

— Ilona Andrews

132. “There comes a point where you have to stop trying to repair yourself and accept the fact that you’re broken.”

— Ilona Andrews

133. “He who is feared by my enemy is my shield.”

— Ilona Andrews

134. “When you live in chaos as a child, you strive to impose order over the world. Unfortunately, the world refuses to comply, so you have to settle for trying to control yourself, your habitat, and your friends.”

— Ilona Andrews

135. “Being an innkeeper meant walking a fine line between courtesy and tyranny.”

— Ilona Andrews

136. “It doesn’t matter if I’m the first. It only matters that I’ll be the last.”

— Ilona Andrews

137. “Our relationship had been doomed form the start, because it was based on grief, and unlike love, grief eventually passed.”

— Ilona Andrews

138. “There are many different kinds of evil. Some people are evil because they like to cause pain. Some people are evil because they are selfish and care only about themselves. He is the worst kind of evil. He believes he knows how to bring about a better future, and, if he has to, he will pave the road to it with corpses of innocent people. He has no boundaries. There is nothing he won’t do to get his way.” “What.”

— Ilona Andrews

139. “I pointed at Ascanio. “Not another word. Latin is a dead language, but that doesn’t mean you get to molest its corpse. Finish sweeping, ianitor.”

— Ilona Andrews

140. “My twenty-eight-year-old sister took the time out of her busy schedule of wrenching the truth from terrorists and murderers and preparing for an extended trip overseas.”

— Ilona Andrews

141. “It’s never a good thing when the black volhv says “Uh-oh” and then runs for his life.”

— Ilona Andrews

142. “Yep, Atlanta was burning. Again.”

— Ilona Andrews

143. “I make a bad mom, but I can pull off a crazy aunt.”

— Ilona Andrews

144. “I’ve never seen such a collection of idiots in my whole life.? Doolittle shook his head. ‘If you participate in this lunacy, y’all will get yourselves killed. Then don’t come crying to me.’ Now that would be a neat trick.”

— Ilona Andrews

145. “Settle down, Princess. It’s not my first time.”

— Ilona Andrews

146. “You don’t do subtle. Your subtle is pulling a kick so you don’t kill a man with it, just break his bones.”

— Ilona Andrews

147. “Shifting in the hospital bed had blown her closet door wide open.”

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148. “We would screw up our children. It was inevitable. Julie had taught me that you never get the child you want or expect. You get the child you get and you try your best to make sure they turn out to be a decent human being. That was all that mattered. An.”

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149. “Peope, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It’s easy to be a cog in a machine: you don’t have to think, you have no responsibility. You’re just following orders, doing as you’re told.”

— Ilona Andrews

150. “I could have fixed almost everything else, but death defeated me every time.”

— Ilona Andrews