1,024 Quotes by Ilona Andrews

I believe I’ve met your grandfather, the Bloody Butcher of Odar.” “That’s correct.” “I remember now. A delightful man, wonderfully dry sense of humor.” Arland blinked. “My grandfather has been called many names in his lifetime. Delightful was not one of them. He remembers you also. You tried to poison him.” Caldenia waved her fingers. “I’ve tried to poison everyone at one time or another. Don’t take it personally.

Arabella ran out of blackboard space, crouched, and began dividing on the floor. “This is what we get for teaching them Common Core,” one of the arbiters said. “There is nothing wrong with Common Core,” someone else said. Arabella.

The moment you looked into his gray irises, you knew he would tolerate no challenge to his authority, and if his eyes turned gold, you knew you were going to die. In a fit of cosmic irony, he had fallen in love with me. I challenged his authority on a weekly basis.

Let’s take down the gold leaf,” Caldenia said. “Elegance is never ostentatious, and there is nothing more bourgeois than covering everything in gold. It screams that one has too much money and too little taste, and it infuriates peasants. A palace should convey a sense of power and grandeur. One should enter and be awestruck. I’ve found the awe tends to cut down on revolts.

The last time we met, he tortured me,” Ascanio said. He what? Could this get any worse? “You’re still alive,” Hugh said. “Clearly my heart wasn’t in it.

Bad days, good days, ‘I’ll cut you if you look at me the wrong way’ days. I’ll take them all.

Here, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty...

His T-shirt followed. Yep. Just like I thought. “Before you start dancing, we don’t have any cash!” I called. “Woo!” Desandra waved her arms. “Take it off!

The Beast Lord way: often wrong but never in doubt.