Quotes by Ilona Andrews

So crosses dont do anything against your kind? Sean asked.No, Arland said. There is no mystical force repelling us.Then why?Were forbidden to kill a creature in a moment of prayer or invocation of their deity. Well, we can, technically, but you have to do penance and purify yourself and nobody wants to spend weeks praying and bathing themselves in the sacred cave springs. The waters only a fraction warmer than ice. When one of you holds up a cross, its difficult to determine whether youre praying, invoking, or just waving it around. So the sane strategy is to back away.

Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers.

One day, she’d find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it.

Were you watching me sleep? Because I thought we agreed thats creepy.

Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasnt? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt...right. I felt free.

The judges massive eyebrows crept up. Kaldar. Are you the one speaking for the plaintiff today? Yes, Your Honor.Well, shit, Dobe said. I guess youre familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its house on fire, and got its sister pregnant.

The vampire gagged. The muscles of its neck constricted, widened, constricted again, and it disgorged a six-inch-long metal cylinder onto my desk. The bloodsucker grasped it, twisted the cylinder’s halves apart, and retrieved a roll of papers. “Photographs,” Ghastek said, handing me a couple of sheets from the roll.“That’s disgusting.”“He is thirty years old,” Ghastek said. “All his internal organs, with the exception of the heart, atrophied long ago. The throat makes for a very good storage cavity. People seem to prefer it to the anus.”Translation: be happy I didn’t pull it out of my ass. Thank the gods for small favors.

I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.

He leaned toward me. Suddenly the space between us shrank.I will do everything in my power to ensure your survival, and should the need arise, I will put myself between danger and you. His voice was quiet and intimate. Do not hesitate to use me as your shield.His voice sent tiny shivers through me.Wow.

Nothing kills a party like an oversize metal hedgehog.

Man cant handle the chaos. Oh, you can understand it in the abstract, as long as you dont think about it too hard. But at the core of it, whenever humans come against chaos, they deal with it in one of three ways. ... Faced with chaos you will either ignore it, dance around it, or you will go mad.

Mom? Mother turned to Grandmother.What?Shes going to lunch with her kidnapper!Take a picture for me, Grandma said.

She had only two modes of operation: complete control or complete insanity.

The mage pulled my knife out of his side and looked at it. “Nice knife.” The voice was deep but female.I threw my second knife. The blade bit into the mage’s chest. Shit. Missed the neck. “Here, have another one.

Give me a few minutes.”“You have time.” He sat in the grass.“Are you just going to sit there and watch me?”“Yes. Watching pretty peasant girls is what we poor little rich boys do best.”“Peasant?”He shrugged. “You started the name calling.

Since Ive moved here, you have shown up at my door eight times. I obey the laws, I pay my taxes, and I havent even gotten a parking ticket in my entire time as a driver. Yet if anything at all happens in the neighborhood, you appear at my door. I bet if a meteorite fell somewhere in the subdivision, you would be here asking me if I personally launched it out of my doomsday cannon.

I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. Im sorry, I mustve missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me. from Clean Sweep

You see, the mailman saw your husband during one of his walks.Hes my fiancé, I told her. We are living in sin.Heather blinked, momentarily knocked off her stride, but recovered. Oh, thats nice.Its very nice. I highly recommend it.

We can get you a throne with snakes. I’ll stand next to you and roar at anybody who fails to grovel. Fear Kate Daniels. She is a mighty and terrible ruler. Grendel can anoint the petitioners with his vomit. It’ll be great . . .

Mad Rogan: Resistance is futile.Nevada: You are not assimilating me!