1,024 Quotes by Ilona Andrews

Im's offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk's claws as it strikes its prey. They demonstrate their contraptions and everyone marvels. My children get drunk, confuse a herd of cows with an enemy regiment, and slaughter the lot, screaming like lunatics until the entire army panics.

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

I don’t care,” Nevada said. “I want blue lilacs.”And I want to fly away from here, but that wouldn’t happen anytime soon, would it?“Anyway, I have to get back to the office,” Nevada said. “Text me if anything.”“The queen has dismissed us,” Arabella announced.I dropped into a deep curtsy. “Your Majesty.”“I hate you guys.”“We hate you back,” Arabella told her.“We hated you before the wedding.”“Before it was cool to hate you.”“Get out!” Nevada growled.

I know human nature. We might sacrifice a few, because we are stupid and hardwired for group survival. But we would never die in the thousands because a god wished it. Those kinds of numbers require material gains, like power, wealth, territory.

You can do without sleep or without food, but not without both and sleep wasn't an option.

Man can't handle the chaos. Oh, you can understand it in the abstract, as long as you don't 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.

No, it's human, Curran said. That's the problem. People, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy to be a cog in a machine: you don't have to think, you have no responsibility. You're just following orders. Doing as your told.

It’s your duty as my best friend to be outraged with me.” “I’m outraged!” I snarled. “That bastard!” “Thank you,” Andrea said.

Sh!t. F_ck sh!t.'....'Sh!t f_ck would have also been accepted.