1,024 Quotes by Ilona Andrews

Wiggles hissed as I crossed the floor toward the throne. She fixed me with her empty hateful eyes and smelled the air, her long tongue shivering through the slit of the lipless mouth. Nice to see you too, sweetheart. Remember my cattle prod?

It’s not your job to die for your Pack! It’s your job to make the other bastards die for theirs.

Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.

In the crime novels, a PI is either an ex-cop or has some cop buddies who owed him a favor and who happily provided him with the department’s files, while carrying on about how it could cost them their job. I had no cop buddies. I tried to avoid them as much as possible.

Just reflecting on the fact that when the Universe punches you in the teeth, it never just lets you fall down. It kicks you in the ribs a couple of times and dumps mud on your head.

You should do the dramatic door-opening thing,” I told Curran. “Would you like to see me do the dramatic door-opening thing?” “Yes, I would. Very much.” A quick smile bent his lips. We.

Greedy can be bought, timid can be frightened, smart can be persuaded, but the zealots are immune to money, fear, or reason.

I hadn’t crossed the line. I’d ridden an elephant up to it and run back and forth along its edge while a mariachi band played in the background, but I hadn’t crossed it.

Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible.