Quotes from Ilona Andrews

The two of them, Cassida and Gabriel, thought they could simply take everything she'd worked for. They thought she would roll over. Ramona laughed. It sounded like a promise of murder. "We'll catch them," Matias said, his voice cold like the space between the stars. "I give you my word.

you would think I was cruel, so I hesitated." "You are cruel." "Yes, but it doesn't mean I want you to think I am.

She frowned. "So twisting bones out of your sockets is the way he demonstrates his displeasure at being pushed around?

A familiar pang pierced me, worry mixed with anxiety and a dash of mourning.

He opened his mouth to argue but she put her fingers on his lips. "I don't require you to like it. Only to accept that I'm different from you.

I had few social skills, but intimidation I did well.

I'm a federal senator!" Drewery roared. "I don't give a fuck.

Have you ever tried making a mess, Catalina?" "I don't make messes, I clean them up." And now I was sounding like a renegade detective from some edgy cop drama. Alessandro shuddered. "Ooh, so hardcore.

I rubbed my face, trying to adjust to the new arsenal. Above us, Gertrude Hunt creaked, installing the cannon.

Karina shut her eyes. She could picture herself wrapped in those powerful arms. It would feel safe, so safe. Her life was broken like a mirror and the shards kept cutting her fingers.

But if you have doubts, why don't you go stand over there. I'll shoot you and we'll find out if it hurts.

Why don't you just leave? Leave and live your life the way you want to. You're free to make your own choices." "No," he said. "Freedom is an illusion. We are bound by restraints on every turn. Family, clan, religion, morals, duties; all those are restraints. For someone on the crossroads of worlds, you're naive." "If you can't have your freedom, then what's the point of all this?" "Give

I'm more than the sum of my physical parts.

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There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned, sins committed and imagined, and raw emotion. Love, fear, reverence. How many of us are ready to have our lives judged? What would happen if we were found wanting?

And she wanted to see him bend, to find out what it would be like to see the vulnerability of intimacy in those hard eyes. She was completely powerless and she needed to feel powerful, as a woman does who is wanted so badly by a man, he would do anything for her.

When he concentrates like that," Gaston told me, "if you're really quiet, you can hear the gears in his head turning. Sometimes you catch a faint puff of smoke coming out of his ears…

We would screw up our children. It was inevitable. Julie had taught me that you never get the child you want or expect. You get the child you get and you try your best to make sure they turn out to be a decent human being. That was all that mattered.

Something about Linus made me feel at ease. You knew that he was sincere and whatever he told you wouldn't be a lie.

The concepts of right or wrong are always consequential. It can't be situational or it's not right or wrong.

Felix, how do you know when Hugh wants you to do something?" "He tells me," Felix said. "Ah!" She clapped her hands together. "He tells you. Imagine that. So you are able to communicate with actual words rather than grunts and snarls.

then you saw the vampires, smeared in purple and lime-green sunblock, patrolling those snow-white walls

Fatigue fled.

Why would you want to shoot him?" "He broke your heart. You were miserable for weeks." "I broke my own heart, Leon. He was just the hammer I hit it with." Leon raised his eyebrows. "That's deep, Catalina.