Quotes from Ilona Andrews

What is it? Did Timmy fall down a well?" "Quack!

Here she was serving cosmic cookies and wine to a queen of enlightened predators and the head of a clan of ruthless assassins. Nothing much at stake except an interstellar alliance. Whee!

The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, no matter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who fails to treat a woman with anything less than utmost courtesy.

You make me want to stab you." "I have that effect on many people." "How is it you're still alive?" "I'm hard to kill.

I don't know. Also he inscribed the language of power on me in the womb." "And you didn't start with that? Let's hope your lion has some brains, otherwise your child will be a dimwit." Semiramis moved. "Yes, I know, Ama. Your grandmother says that in this day and age, you could do worse.

At some point the fact that I was carrying my aunt the City Eater in my knife sheath would likely hit me and then I would have a nice nervous breakdown.

Say 'pop.' " "Pop?" "That was the sound of me pulling your head out of your ass."

Normally I'd hide my gun in a canvas bag or a purse. Today I didn't bother. My Baby Desert Eagle rested in a hip holster. Its magazine held twelve rounds, .40 S&W, and I'd brought two spare magazines, in the interior pocket within the lining of my jacket.

NO." CURRAN STRODE TO THE CAR, HEADING DOWN the street away from the temple. "No what?" I knew what, but I wanted him to spell it out. That way I could shut him down better.

Humble is for losers. I am a winner.

Elegance is never ostentatious, and there is nothing more bourgeois than covering everything in gold. It screams that one has too much money and too little taste, and it infuriates peasants.

Suffer none who would seek to stand on the ground you have chosen.

A human mind is the place where emotion and reason are locked in perpetual combat. Sadly for our species, emotion always wins.

I looked at Curran. "You killed an animal god and then you ate him?" "Maybe," Curran said. "What do you mean maybe?

Roman waved his arm and a murder of crows shot out of the forest, flew above our heads and up into the sky. "I don't do doves," Roman said.

Runa was alone and inexperienced, which made her vulnerable. Sheltering her, aiding her, or associating with her brought no advantages.

It didn't matter how powerful you were. Life always found ways to stab you and twist the knife in the wound. Nobody was immune.

Can you turn so you're not pressed against me?" "I could," he said, his voice amused. "But then you would have to lie on top of me." My brain said, "NO." My body went, "Wheee!" I

I stared at her, speechless. There were so many things wrong with what she said that my brain experienced a momentary shutdown.

She and I are immune. She is our sister. We already love her as much as we can.

Never show a weakness; never show pain. The vulnerable get eaten.

He went to the lake again. He found some sort of magic freshwater clams in it. He's very excited about it." Conlan shrugged.

I know William," Kaldar said. "He's married to my cousin, Cerise, who is more like my baby sister. If her life and happiness were at stake, William would burn the world just to see her smile. Jack is a changeling like William. He would move the earth and the moon to protect his brother. "So

His eyes were empty. There was no sadness, no anger, just the watchful emptiness of a predator.