1,024 Quotes by Ilona Andrews

As I walked back to civilization, I realized that for the first time in the six months I had known Curran, we had managed to have a conversation and part ways without wanting to kill each other. I found that fact deeply troubling.

We are family. You will always have a place in my house. I won’t abandon you... You have people, Julie. You are not alone.

The universe shrank to Curran and his pain. I had to break him free. Nothing else mattered.

People around me die. They drop like flies. I’ve gone through life leaving a trail of dead bodies behind me. My mother is dead, my guardian is dead, my aunt is dead – because I killed her, and when my real father finds me, he’ll move heaven and earth to make me dead.

People can snap. People have a limit. And some people are just plain nuts.

If he ever did manage to formulate his own thought, it would likely knock him senseless.

Why could nothing with Kate be simple? Why couldn’t Jim ever just come by to tell me that he had bowled a perfect game or benched a personal best. Maybe finally asked that weird tiger girl out.

Barbarism usually produces swift death. Cruelty is the mark of a civilized human.

The four words of power. Obey, Kill, Protect, and Die. Words so primal, so dangerous, so powerful that they commanded the raw magic itself.