Quotes from Ilona Andrews

Derek, never ever tell a woman that someone is prettier than her. You'll make an enemy for life.

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

I refuse to be defined by which functions my body can or cannot perform well. Quite frankly, I'm more than the sum of my physical parts. I've come to terms with my new life and achieved personal happiness.

Keelan blinked, his teaching moment temporarily derailed. He took a second to recover. "How do we proceed?" I held my hand out, and Hakeem surrendered his branch. "I'm going to poke it with a stick.

I'm a weremongoose. I'm fucking fast. When I get bored, I play with my pet cobra, and I don't mean that figuratively.

It didn't look like any architectural style I knew. I had never seen anything like it. Curran closed his mouth with a click. "Where did they get the granite? The nearest quarry is hundreds of miles inland." "I don't care. I want it," Curran growled.

Ascanio came back. "What happened to him? He looks like he got his ass run over by a car." He was run over by my fist.

There were so many things I wanted to say at once if the words would just get out of each other's way. Fine.

Phone calls, TV broadcasts, and Skype sessions don't, so there has to be some physical proximity. It works better if I can see you and hear you at the same time. Direct eye contact works best." He

Do you really want to go to the Black Sea? Yes, Curran said. I nodded. We do. Saying things like We think this is a trap and We would rather cut off our left foot than go would endanger our ship acquisition and our badass image.

I'd believed him. He was supposed to be different, to be more. He'd made me hope for things I didn't think I'd ever get. When hope broke, it hurt. Mine was a very big, very desperate hope, and it hurt like a sonovabitch.

This wasn't the world of normal people. Yet somehow I kept getting stuck in it.

A knockout, Curran said behind me. I jumped in the air about a foot and managed to land with some semblance of dignity. He had managed to sneak up on me again. Time to save face. Nah. That wasn't a knockout. I just staggered him a bit. I wasn't talking about the kick, baby.

There were times in life when nothing short of spitting fire would do.

He didn't do it because his religion told him to murder people. He didn't do it because he couldn't control himself. He did it out of pure selfish greed, and he didn't feel the least bit upset by it. I'd rather take on a demonic horde any day. The

Mishmar. Your father's hellish prison he cobbled together from the remains of office buildings from Omaha, which he destroyed. The Mishmar that's stuffed to the brink with mutated vampires. That Mishmar." "Yes." "You

Every cell in her ached, as if her whole body had been through such a long and grueling punishment that it simply gave up and now wallowed in self-pity and pain.

He felt like an addict who, after abusing a narcotic for years, somehow found himself sober

I have three sisters," Jim reminded me. "I know what nothing means." "What does it mean, Mr. Female Expert?" "It means you're upset about something, it's been bothering you, but you don't want to bring it up because you're not sure you're up for the conversation that might follow. Sometimes it also means I am supposed to magically guess why you are upset.

a small House consisting only of him and my grandmother Victoria.

I have to convince a paranoid man prone to spree-killing and snap judgements that someone isn't a threat." "He's right to be paranoid. This is a city of fools, incompetents, and madmen. I haven't felt this young in centuries.

Besides, if I'd decided to pull Carver's spine out of his body, I would've done it already." "Can you actually do that?" Curran frowned. "I don't know. I mean theoretically if you broke the spine above the pelvis, you could, but then there are ribs . . . I'll have to try it sometime.

Kissing me won't make me more agreeable," she whispered. "I'm not trying to make you more agreeable." His voice was rough and low. "I just can't help myself.

yep Eloquence 'R' Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic-safer that way.