Top 500 Ilona Andrews Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “I waited. The moment you start speaking, you become less scary, and I had no intention of being less scary.”

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202. “I’m with you because you’re smart and beautiful, and you are not like anyone I know. No matter how hard things are, you throw yourself into them. During Midnight Games you walked into a cage with trained killers not knowing if your curses would work, because you knew other people were counting on you. That’s what you do. You step up.”

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203. “You taught me the meaning of loneliness, because when I don’t see you, I feel alone. You.”

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204. “Julie was an issue riding on an issue and using a third issue for a whip.”

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205. “Whatever storm was brewing, I’d find it and fight it. If it was the price of being with Curran, then I would pay it. He was worth it.”

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206. “Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise.”

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207. “You look like Curran. You have that pissy exasperated look on your face.”

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208. “Maybe you should make me a list of people I can kill and ways in which they’re allowed to die,” he said. “You are not funny.” “I’m very funny.”

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209. “Did you send an escort with my family?” “Yes. They’re a target.” “How did you know they would be leaving?” “My people saw them load up, called me, and I told them to follow.” Duh. “Thank you.” “You’re welcome. I plan to hold them hostage until you sleep with me.” I stumbled. He turned and gave me a brilliant, impossibly handsome smile. “Just kidding.” Damn it.”

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210. “He killed a man,” Mom said. “He was framed,” Grandma Frida said. “You don’t even know the story,” Mom said. 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.” “Go Grandma.” Arabella pumped her fist in the air.”

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211. “Runa was alone and inexperienced, which made her vulnerable. Sheltering her, aiding her, or associating with her brought no advantages.”

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212. “The Beast Lord way: often wrong but never in doubt.”

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213. “He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity.”

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214. “Fortune favors the brave,” I told her. It also kills the stupid, but I decided to keep that fact to myself.”

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215. “Yes, I’m a hermit. Mostly I brood,” Mad Rogan said. “Also I’m very good at wallowing in self-pity. I spend my days steeped in melancholy, looking out the window. Occasionally a single tear quietly rolls down my cheek.” Arabella and Lina snickered in unison. “Do you also brush a white orchid against your lips?” Arabella put in. “While sad music plays in the background?” Lina grinned. “Perhaps,” Mad Rogan said.”

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216. “Love makes you helpless,” Daniela said. “You think about the object of your affection all the time. Your happiness or misery depends on another person’s mood. You give up all power over yourself, hand it to the person you love, and trust that they will be gentle with it.”

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217. “Well, check this out. Mine is bigger.”

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218. “Children think you are a god. You are the center of their universe, you can fix anything, you can shield them and protect them, and then one day they find out you can’t.”

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219. “You rose because hundreds of years ago, when a woman entered a room full of men, she wasn’t exactly safe. Especially if she was beautiful or had holdings. Our magic is just as deadly, but physically, an average male is stronger than an average woman, so when a woman entered the room, men who knew her stood up to indicate that they would shield her from danger. The three of you just declared yourself my protectors.” They.”

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220. “Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it.”

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221. “We were not finished yet, not even close. I could still smell her. I remembered what she felt like. What she tasted like. This wasn’t a casual sexual thing. This was a mating. I would have Kate as my mate. Whatever it took, no matter how long, she would be with me.”

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222. “It’s not an abomination. It’s a bunnycat.”

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223. “Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim.”

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224. “She is in particular interested in the Ennui predator. She very much likes its demeanor and coloring in the images.”

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225. “Curran grinned and my heart made a little jump. I didn’t expect that. “That’s it? That’s your witty comeback?” “Yep.” Eloquence ‘R’ Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic – safer that way.”

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226. “Having a fling with you doesn’t appeal to me. You’re handsome, but you’re too inexperienced and too arrogant 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. You’re too young for me, and in ten years, when you improve, I will be too old for you. So let’s not speak of this again.” A thin, high-pitched sound came from the wall. Miko was snickering.”

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227. “You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You’d make a fortune.”

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228. “Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.”

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229. “The world was full of interesting words used to describe complicated things. There was tartle, a Scottish word for the panicked pause you experience when you have to introduce someone, but you don’t remember their name. There was backpafeifengesicht, a German term for a face you’d love to punch. There was gigil, a Filipino word for the urge.”

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230. “Just reflecting on the fact that when the Universe punches you in the teeth, it never just lets you fall down. It kicks you in the ribs a couple of times and dumps mud on your head.”

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231. “Call her out,” Arabella said. “Tell her Rogan is yours!” Grandma Frida pumped her fist. “Don’t let her take your man!” Leon declared. We all looked at him. “I was feeling left out,” he said.”

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232. “Andrea once told me that I had a problem processing emotional pain. I couldn’t handle it, so I replaced it with physical pain instead: either I inflicted it on others or I suffered through it myself. Well, I had physical pain aplenty. If she was right, I should be floating on a cloud of bliss right about now.”

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233. “This wasn’t the world of normal people. Yet somehow I kept getting stuck in it.”

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234. “Kate, you’re a pushover,” the clerk said. I leaned over the counter and offered him my best deranged smile. “Wanna push and see if I fall over?”

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235. “Gerard Demille wasn’t her biological parent, but he was the only father she ever knew.”

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236. “I’m a bastard but even I don’t kill my own people, unless it’s absolutely necessary.”

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237. “Obnoxious smart-ass. Never been anywhere, never done anything, huh. Arrested development, huh. Considering that it was coming from a man who spent his nights peeing on his neighbors’ fences, that was rich. Shoot, I should’ve told him that.”

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238. “When in doubt and in need of information, find a snitch and squeeze him.”

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239. “Just stay close to us. If we get in trouble, we’ll kill everything.”

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240. “A roar rumbled in Curran’s throat. Barabas sat back a bit. I shuddered. “So scary. Still can’t tell you.” He opened his mouth. “Lorelei,” I said. Curran swore. Barabas.”

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241. “Six vampires came scuttling over the roof, in assorted colors of sunblock, like someone spilled a bag of Skittles. Taste the undead rainbow.”

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242. “Were you watching me sleep? Because I thought we agreed that’s creepy.”

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243. “Derek’s lips stretched into a smile on their own, driven not by humor but by the instinctual need to bare his teeth as the wild inside glared through his eyes.”

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244. “Arabella did not need backup. Most of the time she was the backup, the field artillery, and the air support, but Nevada taught me to always have an exit strategy.”

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245. “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.”

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246. “It was like piling money into a heap and setting it on fire twice a month.”

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247. “Somewhere in that database my name sat in its own little niche, the name of a reject, undisciplined and worthless. Just the way I liked it.”

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248. “Those books made it crystal clear that giving honey to your baby before he was a year old made you a terrible mother. The moment a spoon of honey would touch his lips, the words “Awful Mother” would appear on your forehead, forever branding you as a parenting failure.”

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249. “His Furriness, the Long-term Planner.”

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250. “I once took a city with five men and a lame goat.”

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