Top 500 Ilona Andrews Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Her face looked like it would shatter any second.”

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

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

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

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

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

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408. “He focused on me completely, the same way he did when he asked me a question and waited for an answer. It was almost impossible to look away. If he ever fell in love – which probably wasn’t possible, given that he was likely a psychopath – his would be the kind of devotion people fantasized about.”

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409. “Those we love know us the best. They know all the right places to strike.”

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410. “The thing is, people have a remarkable potential to injure you, but they also have a great power to help you heal.”

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411. “She eats grass. Don’t ask.”

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412. “If you’re really hard up, I can introduce you to my grandmother. She’s a fan.” Adam blinked. “She doesn’t typically sleep with pretty young things, but she would make an exception in your case. You might even learn a trick or two.”

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413. “I had been hugged by a giant, superintelligent, pacifist bear. I could do this. I could do anything.”

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414. “How did it feel, Herald?” The memory of power ripping from her in a torrent surfaced in her mind, followed by a spike of pain as she said the power word after her incantation had paved the way. She heard the sound of Adams’ bones breaking and patted Peanut’s nose. “How did it feel?” The Herald of Atlanta smiled. “It felt good.”

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415. “If I came with you, I’d have to answer uncomfortable questions. I ask questions, I don’t answer them.” “What kind of questions?” “Why were you in a vehicle with Kate, alone? What were you wearing? What was she wearing? How long were you there? Did you do something or did you talk? What was the nature of your discussion? Could this trip have been avoided?”

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416. “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.”

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417. “I’m sorry. You should make my life hell for the next hundred years.”

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418. “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.”

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419. “Thank you,” I said to Linus. “Of course. This is what I’m here for. It’s my function as your witness.” He grinned again. “Besides, things around you have a way of turning interesting. I do hate to be bored.”

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420. “People do horrible things in the name of keeping things just the way they are.” “Where.”

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421. “It’s not your job to die for your Pack! It’s your job to make the other bastards die for theirs.”

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422. “I would have to stop at a local shelter and possibly PetSmart. They had silent, stealthy, vicious predators available for adoption.”

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423. “History had a way of rolling over the best-laid plans like a runaway bulldozer.”

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424. “I would really like to know”, he said with genuine curiosity. “The next time I kill someone, I’d like to do it in a way that doesn’t freak you out.”

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425. “First, it took both of us to kill that thing, and if it reinvents itself again, it will take both of us again. I’m not leaving you alone with it. Second, if you try to physically carry me to the car, I will resist and bleed more. Third, you can possibly stuff me in the car against my will, but you can’t make me drive.” He snarled. “Argh! Why don’t you ever do anything I ask you to?” “Because you don’t ask. You tell me.” We glared at each other.”

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426. “Do men often tell you you’re enchanting?” “No. Men often tell me I hit very hard.” Hint, hint.”

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

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428. “The kind of eyes that jumped from a woman’s dreams right into her morning and made trouble in the marriage bed.”

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429. “Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.”

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430. “Does it involve breaking and entering?” A little smile stretched Raphael’s lips. “I see His Majesty made a move. Has he asked you to make him dinner yet?” I growled. “This isn’t about me and Curran.”

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431. “The beasties dashed left, rounded the corner, and stopped before a square foot-wide vent secured by a metal grate. “Use the small tooth,” Cornelius intoned. “Open the burrow.” “I’m in a Disney movie,” Augustine said, his face disgusted.”

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432. “If we agree to your proposal, you’ll expect us to abide by your contract, which may require us to compromise our ethics.”

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

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434. “Amy,” Elsie Moore said in her crackling voice, her gaze fixed on Declan. “I want you to get me a new bear. A blond one.”

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435. “If you hang up on me again, I will slice your car into small pieces and hang them on your roof like Christmas wreaths.”

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436. “Some things were constant in the universe. Two and two didn’t always equal four, but every water-based species at some point had heated water and thrown some plants into it.”

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437. “Some people in the world only saw in black and white. They were driven by fear. They had learned how to survive in their little corner of the world and they saw any change as a threat to their survival.”

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438. “How is it that Raphael made more holes in you than in swiss cheese, but your assholeness survived?” “Raphael doesn’t have a knife big enough to kill my assholeness.”

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439. “Knocking, it’s a thing,” I told him. “You make a fist, lift it, and gently hit the door to let the person inside know you are out there.”

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440. “What the hell did this Curran do to you? Killed your master, stole your girl, burned down your castle? What?”

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441. “Derek favored his left side. His horse refused to bear him. I couldn’t blame the horse. I wouldn’t want his demonic, undead-blood-smeared, wolf-smelling ass riding me, either. But it made us slow.”

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442. “Cuddles screamed. It wasn’t a braying noise, it was an ear-slapping shriek of pure donkey outrage, like someone got hold of a foghorn and tried to strangle it.”

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

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444. “As I walked back to civilization, I realized that for the first time in the six months I had known Curran, we had managed to have a conversation and part ways without wanting to kill each other. I found that fact deeply troubling.”

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445. “Why could nothing with Kate be simple? Why couldn’t Jim ever just come by to tell me that he had bowled a perfect game or benched a personal best. Maybe finally asked that weird tiger girl out.”

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446. “It a dude and a girl, and the house and wooo scary things happen and then they kill everything.”

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447. “Tall, with skin the color of rich coffee, and dressed all in black, Jim looked like he was carved from a block of solid muscle. Logic said that at some point he must’ve been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, “There shall be a badass,” and Jim sprung into existence, fully formed, complete with clothes, and ready for action.”

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448. “Well,” Caldenia said. “Nobody can say that this siege is boring.”

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449. “The pain gets better with time,” I told her. “It always hurts, but it gets better.”

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450. “The Order of Merciful Aid provided merciful aid, usually on the edge of a blade or the burn of a bullet.”

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