Top 500 Ilona Andrews Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

354. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

355. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

357. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

358. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

359. “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?”

— Ilona Andrews

360. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

361. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

362. “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!”

— Ilona Andrews

363. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

365. “Did I ever tell you that you are like sunshine in the middle of the night?”

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

367. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

368. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

369. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

370. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

374. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

377. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

378. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

382. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

383. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

384. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

385. “I hadn’t crossed the line. I’d ridden an elephant up to it and run back and forth along its edge while a mariachi band played in the background, but I hadn’t crossed it.”

— Ilona Andrews

386. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

387. “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.”

— Ilona Andrews

388. “The problem with Conlan was that he had his father’s unshakeable confidence and his mother’s mouth.”

— Ilona Andrews

389. “Did you just grab my butt?” I whispered. “What?” “Curran!” “Yes?” I could hear controlled laughter in his voice. Unbelievable. I sped up. “We’re tracking ghouls and you’re grabbing my butt.” “I always make sure to pay attention to important things.”

— Ilona Andrews

390. “Sentient beings are spectacular liars. We are gifted with an unparalleled ability to deny things that make our life unpleasant. We even pretend death isn’t a certainty, because contemplating our own mortality drives us mad.”

— Ilona Andrews

391. “I don’t want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate.”

— Ilona Andrews

392. “Just so you know: if a rakshasa shows up, I left my sword in the car.”

— Ilona Andrews

393. “Should I bring my own chains this time? Or do you have bigger plans, and this is some sort of freaky murder foreplay” – why did the word foreplay just come out of my mouth? – “and I’ll end up cut up into small pieces inside some freezer at the end? I can just spray myself with mace and shoot myself in the head now and save you the trouble.”

— Ilona Andrews

394. “She eats grass. Don’t ask.”

— Ilona Andrews

395. “Cerise Mar voiced a polite and a nonviolent request that they get the hell off our land, which was refused.”

— Ilona Andrews

396. “Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.”

— Ilona Andrews

397. “Being human in our world is synonymous with being included into the framework of society.”

— Ilona Andrews

398. “Life is full of surprises,” he said. “Try to cope with grace.”

— Ilona Andrews

399. “How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn’t scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered the most to me?”

— Ilona Andrews

400. “On a scale from one to ten, the Pack was eleven and everything else a one.”

— Ilona Andrews