Top 500 Ilona Andrews Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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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252. “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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253. “This wasn’t the world of normal people. Yet somehow I kept getting stuck in it.”

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

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

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

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258. “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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259. “I can’t share, Nevada. I won’t.”

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260. “I like Eeyore. He’s sensible. A sober outlook on life never hurt anyone.”

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

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

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

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266. “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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267. “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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268. “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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269. “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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270. “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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271. “Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.”

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

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273. “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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274. “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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275. “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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276. “What was wrong with my life and how did I get to this place?”

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

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278. “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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279. “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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280. “Anger – a better alternative to caffeine.”

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281. “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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282. “When we were at the lodge, and you were dancing in the snow, I kept wondering why the snow wasn’t melting. You’re like spring. My spring.”

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

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284. “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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285. “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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286. “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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287. “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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288. “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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289. “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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290. “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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291. “She had wailed loudly enough to wake the dead and make them call the cops.”

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292. “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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293. “Just once I want it to be easy and neat. But no, there is never a good decision. I pick what I can live with.”

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294. “You dare to wrestle with my mind? I’m the Plaguebringer. Gods flee when they hear me coming.” “If my hands weren’t busy, I’d clap for you.”

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295. “You have to let your people take pride in a job well accomplished and recognize them for it. You will get better results.”

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296. “In the whole world, there was no better place than being wrapped in him.”

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297. “On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you’re getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.”

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298. “Someone knocked on the door. “Come in!” Barabas called. The door swung open and Derek stuck his head in. “Hey, do you have any duct tape?” He saw me, stepped back, and closed the door without a word. Well. “Coward,” Barabas said, loud enough for Derek to hear.”

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299. “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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300. “Most people will do just about anything you tell them to do, if you act with authority, give them no choice, and accept the responsibility for their actions. It’s kind of scary, isn’t it?”

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