Top 500 Ilona Andrews Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Go to the Black Sea, meet new people, see beautiful places, get killed by a mutant carnivorous kangaroo goat. One item off my bucket list.”

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

103. “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

104. “And men my prophet wail deride!”

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

107. “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

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

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

110. “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

111. “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

112. “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

113. “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

114. “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

115. “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

116. “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

117. “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

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

— Ilona Andrews

119. “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

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

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

124. “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

125. “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

126. “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

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

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

129. “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

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

— Ilona Andrews

131. “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

132. “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

133. “He said he’d met a girl with stardust on her robe, and when he looked into her eyes, he saw the universe looking back.”

— Ilona Andrews

134. “And those who love us most lie to us most of all, because life is a bumpy ride and they want to smooth it out as much as possible.”

— Ilona Andrews

135. “If he full-out flexed, I would probably faint, or jump off the building.”

— Ilona Andrews

136. “Wiggles hissed as I crossed the floor toward the throne. She fixed me with her empty hateful eyes and smelled the air, her long tongue shivering through the slit of the lipless mouth. Nice to see you too, sweetheart. Remember my cattle prod?”

— Ilona Andrews

137. “Catalina,” Grandma Frida called out behind me. “When you’re done cutting up the body, call me. I’ll help you hide it.” I turned and looked at her. Grandma flexed her arm. “Ride or die.”

— Ilona Andrews

138. “There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned, sins committed and imagined, and raw emotion. How many of us are ready to have our lives judged? What would happen if we were found wanting?”

— Ilona Andrews

139. “I looked at Curran. “You killed an animal god and then you ate him?” “Maybe,” Curran said. “What do you mean maybe?”

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

141. “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

142. “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

143. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

145. “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

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

— Ilona Andrews

147. “Grendel waved his tail. Whatever horrors happened in his canine life, Grendel always bounced back with easy enthusiasm whenever some food made an appearance. A treat, a blanket in a nice warm house, an occasional pat on the head, and Grendel would be as happy as he could be. If only people were so easy.”

— Ilona Andrews

148. “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

149. “Every time you see a problem and walk away from it, you set a new standard.”

— Ilona Andrews

150. “Any landing you could walk away from was a good landing.”

— Ilona Andrews