Quotes from Ilona Andrews

It's funny how loud horrified silence can be. Curran laughed.

The double doors separating the private dining room from the rest of Bernard's swung open. A tall broad-shouldered body filled the doorway. Hugh d'Ambray strode into the room.

Between the journeymen, vampires crouched like monstrous gargoyles: hairless, corded with a tight network of steel-hard muscle, and smeared in lime-green and purple sunblock. Bubble-gum-tinted nightmares.

Red Horn kills people," Thomas said behind my back. "Your wife…" "Will enjoy the exercise," my husband said. "You know what they say. Happy wife, happy life.

Curran never does anything without a reason," he said. "I was told you'd met him. Perhaps you indirectly challenged him at that meeting." Indirectly? I had challenged him deliberately.

Cajun stomp? You heard me, swamper. And keep your hands to yourself.

He who is feared by my enemy is my shield.

What is going on in your head?" "It's a dark, lawless place, Catalina. So dark.

Taste the undead rainbow.

"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."

You sure you don't want me to stay? I'll make you coffee and ask you about your day.

My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.

No, it's human, Curran said. That's the problem. People, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy to be a cog in a machine: you don't have to think, you have no responsibility. You're just following orders. Doing as your told.

George grimaced. "Jack is spoiled. Things are hard for him, but he isn't the only one who doesn't have it easy. He gets away with crazy things because he's a changeling and he's different. Jack could behave better, but he stopped trying. He decided that he's worthless and that nothing he could do would make any difference.

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.

Life is full of surprises," he said. "Try to cope with grace.

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

It seems that we had...not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think.

FLYING WAS OVERRATED. Heights were very overrated. Flying with wings was probably less overrated when said wings belonged to you, but when you were dangling in a swing that bopped up and down every time the angel of death carrying you beat his wings, you reached a new level of appreciation for walking. Walking was amazing and awesome, and I really wanted to do it again as soon as possible.

Life is so precious because it's short. Even the most resilient people are fragile. Life isn't about dying or not dying. It's about living well. Living so you can be proud and happy.

The problem with Conlan was that he had his father's unshakeable confidence and his mother's mouth.

Children leave," Ilemina told her. "It is the greatest tragedy of motherhood that if you have done everything right, if you have raised them in confidence and independence, they will pick up and leave you. It is as it's meant to be.

Being an innkeeper meant walking a fine line between courtesy and tyranny.

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