Top 500 Ilona Andrews Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “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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303. “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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304. “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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305. “She had wailed loudly enough to wake the dead and make them call the cops.”

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306. “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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307. “Six feet two inches tall and built like he could punch through solid walls and dodge a bullet at the same time, Jim projected a concentrated promise to kick your ass. It emanated from him like heat from a sidewalk. He never actually threatened you, but when he entered a room full of hard cases, bigger men backed off, because when he looked at them, they heard their bones breaking.”

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308. “It couldn’t be real. People summoned monsters from the arcane realm, but I’d never heard of anyone summoning actual demons. Yet it was right there, living, breathing, real, and every instinct I had howled and clawed at my logic.”

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309. “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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310. “It’s truly rare to find a man who enjoys the sound of his own voice as much as you do.”

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311. “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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312. “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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313. “I’m your father. That’s the great privilege of parenthood; we can comment on whatever we want.”

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314. “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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315. “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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316. “Your favorite volhv showed up half an hour ago, complaining about his lack of sleep and stupid gods. He says he brought his Batman belt.”

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317. “Long strands of drool stretched from between his fangs and dripped on the pavement, sending a heady scent of jasmine to swirl through the air. Perfumed monster spit. What was the world coming to?”

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318. “Judging by the hard lines of his face and the flat look in his eyes, he’d left the Marines, but the Corps hadn’t quite left him.”

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319. “Even if we were mated, I have my own name and I made my own rep. I don’t think the term ‘mate’ should trump everything I’ve done. I’ve earned more than that.” Jim.”

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320. “I looked at the canine companion. “Me cookies. You stay.”

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321. “Did you think I was sitting on my hands?” “I thought you might be injured.” He looked at me. “We’ve met, you and I?” I deliberately took a big step back. “What?” he growled. “I’m making room for your ego.”

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322. “You have to live a little.” Grandma fitted the track bar into the cog on the track. “Go out with a bad boy. Run headfirst into a fight. Get roaring drunk. Something!”

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323. “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 to squeeze an item because it is unbearably cute.”

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324. “But would I get you, if I were an innkeeper?”

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325. “He said, ‘Yeah, but will I get chicks? In truckloads?”

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326. “Nonhumanity is a dangerous label. If someone is nonhuman, they have no rights, Andrea. No protection.”

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327. “Praise the Lord and get the fireballs ready.”

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328. “The human body is an amazing organism. It can go from dead tired to completely alert in a terrified blink.”

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329. “I also stole a small yellow doughnut from the box of Duncan’s doughnuts in the rec room and fed it to the attack poodle in my office. He made a great production of it. First, he growled at the doughnut, just to show it who was boss. Then he nudged it with his nose. Then he licked it, until finally he snagged it into his mouth and chomped it with great pleasure, dropping crumbs all over the carpet.”

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330. “I WALKED INTO my house to see the knight and the wizard sitting in my kitchen, drinking coffee. If you added in Julie’s thieving skills and my sword, we almost had an adventuring party. “It’s too bad we’re missing a cleric,” I said.”

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331. “I leaned into Barabas’s office. “Do you want to come help pick out a suit for Christopher?” “No,” Barabas said firmly, tapping a stack of papers against his desk to even it out. “Why?” “Because I don’t need to see him in a suit.” Curran.”

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332. “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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333. “I mourn my sword, but that’s alright. Grandmother gave me another one.”

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334. “I wasn’t even that lovable to begin with. I was a selfish ass, but somehow something I did made this man love me, deeply and without reservations. He knew things about me that I would die to keep secret. I trusted him more than I trusted anyone in my life. I mattered to him. He was suffering and I wanted it to stop. I wanted to see him happy. I loved him so much.”

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335. “If he ever did manage to formulate his own thought, it would likely knock him senseless.”

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336. “Mr. Ramirez looked at Sean and me one last time and smiled. “Good luck with your jogging.” No. He didn’t just wish Sean and I happy jogging.”

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337. “Say something. Something smart. Our stares connected. His eyes were still the same; calculating, lupine, and heated by amber magic from within. “You’re late,” I told him. Yes! Brilliant. I said a thing and it made sense. It had a subject and a verb and they went together. Catalina Baylor one, Instagram Alessandro a big fat zero. “Beauty takes time.” “Oh, get over yourself.” I stepped aside.”

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338. “Jim wasn’t just a badass. He was a badass who wrote a book for badasses on how to be a badder badass.”

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339. “Do you remember when we went to the Black Sea and you pretended to be infatuated with Lorelei?” “Not that again.” His face shut down. “I’m going to do something very dangerous and stupid. I’ve done some idiotic things in my life, but this takes the cake.” “Tell me.” “No.” Gold rolled over his eyes. “What do you mean, no?” “If I tell you, you will stop me from doing it.” “Now you have to tell me.” I shook my head. “I’m calling in the Lorelei favor. You have to let me run with this.” “Kate!” “No.”

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340. “When you keep people from doing things they are destined to do, they go crazy.”

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341. “You said sloppy! Look, I didn’t even use my sword; I hit him with my head, like a moron.”

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342. “There was something very comforting about him, and I was not sure if it was his easy manner or his complete immunity to my scowling.”

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343. “Ooo.” Hugh sucked the air in, narrowing his eyes. “Mean. I like mean.”

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344. “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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345. “Mishmar. Your father’s hellish prison he cobbled together from the remains of office buildings from Omaha, which he destroyed. The Mishmar that’s stuffed to the brink with mutated vampires. That Mishmar.” “Yes.” “You.”

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346. “It was one thing to be attracted to bad boys, something I usually didn’t suffer from. It was another to be attracted to bad men. Mad Rogan was a really bad, bad man.”

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347. “Perhaps I just wasn’t scary enough. Maybe I should invest in some horns or fangs.”

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348. “Now Julie could stay here, in the Keep full of homicidal maniacs who grew teeth the size of switchblades and erupted into a violent frenzy when threatened.”

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349. “Next to me Arabella, wearing the same outfit I did, pursed her lips together and took a selfie. Ugh.”

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350. “Did the Order return your sense of humor as part of the severance package?”

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