Quotes from Ilona Andrews

What is this Christmas?" Wing asked. Orro turned from the stove. "It's the rite of passage during which the young males of the human species learn to display aggression and use weapons." Sean

It's been over a year since I've had sex.

The only people who can have normal are the ones unaffected by all the fucked-up shit that happens around them.

I ordered four eggs and my new friend ordered some doughnuts. We both stayed away from sausage. Unless you knew the restaurant well and trusted the cook, ordering ground meat was a bad idea, because for some places "beef" was a code for rat meat. The

Family," Curran said, putting his arm around me. "Can't live with them, can't kill them.

Jill meant well, but her life was a string of self-created emergencies, which she then cheerfully overcame.

It's okay, Sarrat. If he insults you, I'll cut his head off and you can drink his blood.

Red wine?" Fiona squinted at the glass. "Kate, if you spill the wine on yourself, they'll bury you in this dress." "Maybe wine isn't a good idea," George said.

You're right. I have no idea what it's like to take shit from people I could kill with my eyes closed.

The boy is right," my aunt said next to me. "You make a passable bride. Miracle of miracles.

People are human. They make mistakes." "They can make mistakes on someone else's dime." Mom's face held no mercy.

alone with her sadness . . ." "Curran, stop while you're ahead, or I swear

The inn woke me up at six thirty. I dreamed that Sean Evans came back. We were having a barbecue, and he kept fighting with Orro over how to season the ribs.

Hope sparked inside me. It was tiny, but it was so much better than nothing.

You need someone to take care of you, Maud, whether you want to admit it or not.

Would you like to sit in my nasty medicated bath with me?

People must make their own choices, no matter how wrong those choices are. Otherwise they can't be free.

What good is immortality if the people you love can't be there with you?

You look . . . You look." I cracked up. "And whatever the hell that scent is from those flowers is driving me crazy." He took my crown off and looked at me. "Nope. Not the flowers.

The birds tried a direct assault just after dark. I let that idiot and your werewolf have them. I think Sean might be disturbed. He cut off their heads and put them on sticks in the back yard.

Yeah. Now when I look back at it, I realize it was a test. His Furry Majesty was trying to gauge what I was made of and I showed him." I shrugged. "Live and learn." So many problems could've been avoided if I hadn't crouched down in the darkness and called out, "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.

Should I bring my own chains this time? Or do you have bigger plans, and this is some sort of freaky murder foreplay?

Time may have taught him patience with less agile minds, but it could hardly teach him how to escape boredom in their presence.

I was mourning the old me. For the new me to emerge, the old me had to disappear, and killing her bit by bit hurt.