Ilona Andrews
Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?" "Yep." "Is he carrying the moon on his pitchfork?" "Nope it's a pie.Collection: Moon
Curran looked back at me. "Why is it you always attract creeps?" "You tell me." Ha! Walked right into that one, yes, he did.Collection: Creeps
If he full-out flexed, I would probably faint, or jump off the building.Collection: Building
I did deranged quite well, when the occasion called for it.Collection: Wells
And just when I thought the pain had dulled, my mind would betray me and bring Dad back to life in my dreams. Sometimes I didn't realize that he was dead until I awoke and then it was like a punch in the stomach. And sometimes I knew in my dream that I was dreaming, and I woke up crying.Collection: Dream
I'm a substitute mom." "You're more like a crazy aunt who only gets called when somebody needs bailing out of jail.Collection: Mom
If I lose control, you'll be the first to know." "I'm quite perturbed by the idea.Collection: Ideas
I had the metabolism of a hummingbird on crack.Collection: Cracks
A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist.Collection: Normal
Perhaps I just wasn't scary enough. Maybe I should invest in some horns or fangs.Collection: Scary
Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.Collection: Warrior
You don't cause problems. You cause catastrophes.Collection: Causes
Big bad merc, down with a basic hip toss. In your place I'd be blushing.Collection: Toss
Two years? That's entirely too long. If you want, we can take care of that. After two years it's pure therapy.Collection: Years
The sight of me puffing and straining apparently amused him to no end.Collection: Sight
Wanna spot me?" "No thanks. How about I just scream verbal encouragements at you?Collection: Encouragement
The vampire stared at me, his mouth slack as Ghastek assessed his options. I took a couple of forms from my desk, put them into the vamp's mouth, and pulled them up by their edges. "What are you doing?" Ghastek asked. "My hole puncher broke." "You have no respect for the undead.Collection: Couple
On a scale from one to ten, the Pack was eleven and everything else a one.Collection: Scales
The Order of Merciful Aid provided merciful aid, usually on the edge of a blade or the burn of a bullet.Collection: Order
On the plus side, if he ever had to fight through a roomful of adolescent girls, he only needed to blink (his velvet brown eyes framed in embarassingly long lashes) a few times, and they would all faint.Collection: Girl
What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf.Collection: Teenage
We were screwed and he didn't even kiss us first.Collection: Kissing
If my luck held, it wouldn't be a handsome Greek demigod looking for the love of his life or at least his love of a couple of hours.Collection: Couple
Now was not a good time, but we didn't often get to chose the time to repay our debts.Collection: Debt
He said 'woman' in the same way I'd say 'Mmmm, yummy chocolate.Collection: Yummy
The kind of eyes that jumped from a woman's dreams right into her morning and made trouble in the marriage bed.Collection: Dream
Shave that jaw, brush that hair, tone down the crazy in the eyes, and he would have to fight women off with that crossbow.Collection: Crazy
You're not going to die?" "Not right this minute." And of course, saying something like that usually resulted in immediate dying. I braced myself for a stray meteorite falling through the roof to crush my skull.Collection: Crush
Your ability to remain alive never ceases to amaze me.Collection: Alive
It's not your job to die for your Pack! It's your job to make the other bastards die for theirs.Collection: Jobs
Kate's Speciality: Killing things, with much bloodshed. Talking trash, infuriating authority. Driving Beast Lord crazy.Collection: Crazy
It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim idea of how to use it to attempt one. Before you knew it, a three-headed Slavonic god was wreaking havoc in downtown Atlanta, the skies were raining winged snakes, and SWAT was screaming for more ammo.Collection: Rain
I had an appointment with a sexual deviant and I didn’t want to be late.Collection: Want
Ready to put your claws where your mouth is, or are you going to cringe behind the big boys and yip all day?" His eyes flared yellow "Is that a challenge?" "Yes it is.Collection: Eye
Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it!Collection: Cities
He finished the bandage and was examining it critically. "You know those things are unreliable." His voice held just a touch of reproach. “Eleven out of twelve work fine. I’d say that’s better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.Collection: Voice
Where is Barbie?" The female shifter snickered and choked it off. "Is there a stripper pole?Collection: Barbie
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.Collection: People
Sh!t. F_ck sh!t.'.... 'Sh!t f_ck would have also been accepted.Collection: Accepted
Curran is the Beast Lord. Tremble.Collection: Beast
Just so you know: if a rakshasa shows up, I left my sword in the car.Collection: Car
The human body is an amazing organism. It can go from dead tired to completely alert in a terrified blink.Collection: Tired
Keeping you safe keeps me in shape.Collection: Shapes
...you expect me to fall on my back with my legs spread." "Not necessarily. ... You can fall on your hands and knees if you prefer. Or against the wall. Or on the kitchen counter. I suppose I might let you be on top, if you make it worth my while.Collection: Wall
I could have fixed almost everything else, but death defeated me every time.Collection: Defeated
I make a bad mom, but I can pull off a crazy aunt.Collection: Mom
Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him. "A fine pair we make,” he said. "Yeah.Collection: Long
No, you’re not going with him.” I crossed my arms. “Who decided that?” He put on his “I’m alpha and I’m putting my foot down” expression. “I decided.Collection: Expression
Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim.Collection: Retarded