Top 500 Ilona Andrews Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “What I needed was a big fat clue. A mysterious note laying it all out. A deity popping out of thin air and explaining it to me. Hell, I’d settle for an annoying old lady with a knack for solving mysteries. I actually stopped and waited for a second to see if a clue would fall out of the sky and land at my feet. The Universe declined to oblige.”

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352. “It was Wednesday now. She’d been in town for two days.”

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353. “The door swung open and Kate walked in. Her jeans and T-shirt were splattered with blood and she was carrying a severed vampire head. The T-shirt has a smiley face on it.”

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354. “Because you can’t lie, Kate. Everything you think is right there on your face. I’ve met kindergarteners who are better actors than you.”

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355. “He waved his hand, trying to find the right words. “Lord Arland, sometimes it helps to speak plainly.” “Sword,” he said.”

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

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357. “I raged across the field, killing all before me. They ran when they saw me coming, and I chased them down, and killed them before they could take someone else’s friend away from them.”

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358. “Dali elbowed Jim in the ribs. “What he meant to say was he is sorry that duties of his office and his own paranoid nature caused him to overreact.” Jim looked like someone had hit him on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper. “Yes.” “And.”

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359. “No challenge, no matter how insignificant, can be left unanswered. Even a cry in the wilderness must be acknowledged, because someone might have heard it.”

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360. “She who showed weakness to teenagers would be picked on to death. True fact of life.”

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361. “Adam glanced up. Brown eyes took my measure. He looked just like he did in all those photographs. Okay. Now I needed to not get fried as I talked his handsome ass into surrendering.”

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362. “You are not a gentle flower who spends its whole life in a greenhouse. You are a wildfire, Lark. A wildfire.”

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363. “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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364. “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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365. “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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366. “He’d left for a reason, and I didn’t want to be anyone’s blast from the past. Still, not knowing was worse than any potential awkwardness.”

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367. “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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368. “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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369. “It’s a hunting revolver.” I slumped back. “It’s for big game hunting.” “Texas,” Alessandro said, loading a state’s worth of meaning into a single word.”

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370. “What is going on in your head?” “It’s a dark, lawless place, Catalina. So dark.”

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

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372. “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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373. “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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374. “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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375. “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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376. “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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377. “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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378. “But would I get you, if I were an innkeeper?”

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379. “Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible.”

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380. “She pictured him exploding into bloody mist. No. Too quick.”

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381. “Flirt with me now, you sonovabitch! See if I’m impressed.”

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382. “At heart, Curran was a cat. He liked soft things, high places, and enough room to stretch out.”

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383. “I’ve never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with the expectation of seducing me into matrimony, and a couple of their mothers came to blows. It was hilari – I mean, dreadful. Simply dreadful.”

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384. “Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky.”

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385. “One day you’ll have to choose diplomacy or your spouse. I’m telling you now, it’s got to be your wife. Diplomacy doesn’t care if you live or die. Your wife does.”

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386. “I so didn’t need another outbreak of Rogan fever.”

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387. “She has a high opinion of herself,” Andrea said. “Oh yes. When she gets into a car, her ego has to ride shotgun.”

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388. “The universe shrank to Curran and his pain. I had to break him free. Nothing else mattered.”

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389. “To Mother “no” was simply a “yes” that hadn’t had a chance to hear her out.”

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390. “If I have to murder Hugh, I don’t want to do it naked,” he said. “It would be weird.”

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391. “Her face looked like it would shatter any second.”

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392. “I like problem solving. I like taking a crisis, breaking it into manageable pieces, and finding a solution. I don’t like the minutiae. I don’t like paperwork.” “You.”

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393. “I’m curious, what are you picturing exactly?” Augustine asked. “A crisscrossing pattern of red laser beams and ferrets in harnesses slithering through it like ninjas?”

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394. “He puts himself between evil creatures and small children. He protects us. He is my monster, Commander. Should any rough men come here and try to take what is ours, he will remind them of that.”

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395. “William glanced at her. “Does your sister ground you often?” “No. She mostly does this.” Georgie rolled his eyes in perfect imitation of her and muttered, “Why me?”

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396. “Kate’s Speciality: Killing things, with much bloodshed. Talking trash, infuriating authority. Driving Beast Lord crazy.”

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397. “Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it!”

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398. “I’d signed six things and my stack wasn’t getting any smaller. It was like the paperwork was breeding while I worked.”

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399. “Don’t do this to yourself,” he said. “It’s a cycle, Kate. We fight for the Pack, they fight for us. We bleed, they bleed. Sometimes people die. Everyone who came with me came of their own free will. The knew where we were going. They all knew there was a good chance that not everybody would make it out. This isn’t the first fight or the last. People will sacrifice themselves for us again, and we’ll do the same. I don’t know how bad the future will be, but I promise you, we’ll deal with it. You and I. Together.”

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400. “The lack of money is the root of all evil, Mr. Meadows.”

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