Top 500 Ilona Andrews Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Gerard Demille wasn’t her biological parent, but he was the only father she ever knew.”

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

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253. “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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254. “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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255. “True beauty is in how that person makes you feel. When a man truly loves you, the longer you are together, the more beautiful you will be to him. When he looks at you and you look at him, you won’t just see the surface. You will see everything you shared, everything you’ve been through, and every happy moment you hope for.” Her.”

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

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257. “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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258. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

259. “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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260. “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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261. “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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262. “It was like piling money into a heap and setting it on fire twice a month.”

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

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

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265. “At first he didn’t want to tell us, and then Jim asked him if he was left- or right-handed. The bodyguard asked why and Jim told him that he would break the other arm first, because he wasn’t a complete bastard.”

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266. “The Kodiak of Atlanta was brave and powerful and the closest thing to a father Curran had. He also had an uncanny ability to alienate everyone in the room and then have to defend himself when a brawl broke out. He took self-defense seriously. Sometimes there was no building left standing when he was done.”

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267. “She could’ve stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by.”

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268. “This is blasphemy!” Odalon declared in the same way Gerard Butler had once roared “This is Sparta.” Sadly, Odalon had nobody to kick into a bottomless hole for emphasis, so he settled for looking extremely put out.”

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269. “Clothes don’t have magic powers, Derek. They don’t mystically protect you from three-inch claws, rapists, or murderers. If someone decides to hurt you, they will do so whether or not you have a thin layer of denim over your skin.”

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270. “Ghastek stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, sipping coffee from a white mug that read, Graveyard Shift: We do it in the dark.”

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271. “He would soak in that silver glow until it shone from his eyes and sing a long song about hunting and running through the dark wood in the middle of the night.”

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272. “Where the hell would I go without you, Kate? No matter where I went, you would be there in my head. I would miss you every moment of my life.”

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273. “I’d believed him. He was supposed to be different, to be more. He’d made me hope for things I didn’t think I’d ever get. When hope broke, it hurt. Mine was a very big, very desperate hope, and it hurt like a sonovabitch.”

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274. “You are not meant to be at peace. We, the human beings, are meant to live life to its fullest. We are meant to experience it all – sadness, disappointment, rage, kindness, joy, love. We are meant to test ourselves. It is painful and frightening, but this is what it means to be alive.”

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275. “A girl half my age swept by and slammed two giant tankard filled with beer on the table. Ragnvald held his up. I smashed my tankard against his. Beer splashed. We raised the tankard and pretended to take much bigger gulps than we did.”

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276. “Lyc-V is a jealous virus. It exterminates all other invaders with extreme prejudice.”

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277. “The Scourge of Mexico and the most terrifying Prime in Houston unhinged his manly jaws and said the only thing he could, “Yes, Mother.”

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278. “She had wailed loudly enough to wake the dead and make them call the cops.”

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279. “Chicks dig a man of mystery.” “You don’t say.” “You know what else chicks dig?” “Subatomic vaporizers?” “And werewolves. Chicks really dig werewolves.” “Poor.”

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280. “I can’t share, Nevada. I won’t.”

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281. “I had the metabolism of a hummingbird on crack.”

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282. “Caldenia smiled. “A Quillonian chef, my dear you shouldn’t have. Well you should have months ago, but one mustn’t be petty. Finally. I shall be dining in a style to which I am suited. Fantastic. Does he have moral scruples I am reasonably sure this summit will result in at least one murder, and I have never tasted an otrokar.”

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283. “Unfortunately, no matter how well you hide, sooner or later your big secret will bite you in the behind, and you might find yourself standing on a telephone pole, not sure why or how you got there, while the neighborhood pretends not to hear your piercing screeches.”

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284. “An unit is only as good as its leader. That’s why a good leader holds herself to the highest standard. It’s not about being liked or being fair. It’s about deciding what your goal is and doing what is necessary to achieve it. Especially when it’s difficult.”

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285. “I dreamed that Curran and I killed a dinosaur and then had sex in the dirt.”

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286. “When some supernatural filth tries to carry off the children, call Roman so he can wade through blood and sewage to rescue them, but when it’s something nice like a wedding or a naming, oh no, we can’t have Chernobog’s volhv involved. It’s bad luck. Get Nikolai. When he finds out who I’m going to marry, he’ll have an aneurysm. His head will explode. It’s good that he’s a doctor, maybe he can treat himself.”

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287. “Let me help,” he said. “You’ve been taught all your life that killing another person is wrong, and that belief persists even in the fact of facts. Not only would Peaches have killed us given the chance, but this way I only had to kill on person rather than kill half a dozen of his followers. I saved several live, but your conditioning tells you I’ve done the wrong thing. I didn’t. He started it. I finished it.”

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288. “It’s almost as if the dead have no value unless we know that someone they are related to is still alive and mourning them.”

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289. “There were so many things I wanted to say at once if the words would just get out of each other’s way. “Fine.”

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290. “I’m your father. That’s the great privilege of parenthood; we can comment on whatever we want.”

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291. “I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn’t melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena’s chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy.”

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292. “I wanted to punch the happy day in the face, grab it by the hair, and beat it until it told me what the hell it was so happy about.”

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293. “Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.”

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294. “Yes, the princess you were expecting put on her armor and left to kill the dragon. So sorry.”

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295. “I wasn’t moaning your name. I was shrieking in alarm.” “That was the sexiest throaty shrieking I’ve ever heard.”

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296. “He let her go almost immediately, but he’d packed so much into that one fierce hug: want, need, worry, reassurance... He’d protect her with his life. Strangely, it made her indignant. Nobody should have to be in the position of having another person give up their life for them. She didn’t want the weight of Declan’s death.”

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297. “Tony looked at me with the long-suffering patience of an adult child who knew an educational lecture was coming and there was no way to escape. “One.”

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298. “He took the risk and his people had died. He blamed himself. It didn’t reflect in his face, but I saw it in his eyes for a brief moment, before they went back to their icy blue. The last time we talked, I was almost completely convinced that he was a sociopath. He seemed invulnerable, as if nothing could bother him. This did.”

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299. “Anger – a better alternative to caffeine.”

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300. “I had come here intending to declare a possible war and instead ended up planning a dinner date with my father at Applebee’s.”

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