Quotes from Ilona Andrews

Just saying, you have to pull your own weight. A hot body and flirting will only get you so far.

Around me, the morning traffic neighed, brayed, and defecated on the street.

I broke my own heart, Leon. He was just the hammer I hit it with.

Look, she gave me a new sword." Curran peered at it. "It looks like Slayer." "That's because they're both made of her bones." "Your sword is made out of your grandmother's bones?" "Okay, I see how it sounds weird when you say it in that tone of voice . .

a tyrant, and a conqueror. He was never elected to the office. He would probably laugh at the idea. And if he did somehow decide to hold elections, he would magic the masses into electing him, because he would honestly believe that he was best qualified to rule wisely. Having

In human history whenever one social group enslaved another, the slaves suffered until they could take no more, and it always ended in an explosion of violence.

Does Strawberry Shortcake know you stole her horse? She will be berry, berry angry with you." I

You can stay out here and compare inches for the entire night, but I'm going inside.

Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn't really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she didn't like, chopping him to tiny pieces wouldn't exactly help me get into the school.

My mother used to say that family, blood or found, was our salvation. It was the net that caught us when we drowned and gently lifted us up out of the raging waters. She was wise, my mother.

Only two kinds of people drink their coffee black: cops and serial killers. Sit, sit." I

We looked at the fire. "This is one hell of a date," I said. "Trapped by a horde of vampires in the middle of a snow-covered field, huddling around a tiny fire on thin blankets," Curran said. "Drink it in, baby. All this luxury just for you." "At least it's not raining." We both looked up just in case a freak downpour decided to drench us, but the night sky was clear. Nothing but stars and desperation.

The ma'avir gave me a condescending smile. "All gods feed on suffering. Without it, there are no prayers or offerings. Mankind is selfish. They give only when they have to. If this world was idyllic and life was just, what need would there be for gods?

I could've picked somebody rational. But no, I had to fall in love with this arrogant idiot.

So far my best plan would be to build a mountain of gasoline cans and explosives, stick a Property of US Government sign on it, and throw a T-shirt over Pierce's head when he showed up to explode it. Yes, this would totally work.

Can you guarantee that your child will not snap and attack his classmates?" "Absolutely. He is very much like his father. It's important to him that his resorting to violence is viewed as a deliberate choice rather than a loss of control on his part.

I know what it's like to be responsible for a younger brother.

When it's over, you will come to me and you will ask me to take charge of you.

I won't let him hurt you." His voice, so suffused with rage a moment ago, was ice cold now, measured and calm, and the determination in his eyes scared me more than his anger. "I'll kill anyone who tries to end your life. I'll answer any question you ask. I'll pay any price to keep you alive. Let me protect you.

It was Wednesday now. She'd been in town for two days.

zealot's psyche is a tightrope. They have severed everything else in favor of their goal. They will pay any price for their victory, and that makes them infinitely more dangerous.

He'd have to stalk her, he decided. Carefully and patiently.

They call the undead inhuman, not realizing the irony: only humans are capable of inhumanity.

Living things have minds. Animated things have matrixes.