Ilona Andrews
It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.Collection: Knives
I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with the expectation of seducing me into matrimony, and a couple of their mothers came to blows. It was hilari—I mean, dreadful. Simply dreadful.Collection: Mother
It's awful to be rich and mind-boggingly handsome and have women fawn over you. My heart bleeds for you. Poor dear, how do you manage?Collection: Heart
Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.Collection: Thinking
As he passed me, he leaned to Curran and handed him a paper fan folded from some sort of flyer. Curran looked at the fan. “What?” "An emergency precaution, Your Majesty. In case the lady faints.” Curran just stared at him. Raphael strode toward the Pit, turned, flexed a bit, and winked at me. "Give me that,” I told Curran. “I need to fan myself.” "No, you don’t.Collection: Giving
You sure you don’t want me to stay? I’ll make you coffee and ask you about your day.Collection: Coffee
He bared his teeth in a happy feral grin. My own personal psycho.Collection: Teeth
I turned and bumped by head against his chest a few times. It was the nearest hard surface.Collection: Surface
I know people who will gently persuade you to be forthcoming.Collection: People
Whatever storm was brewing, I'd find it and fight it. If it was the price of being with Curran, then I would pay it. He was worth it.Collection: Fighting
I don't know if you heard, but I kind of run this place.Collection: Running
Seducing him in the tub smelling of vinegar was out of the question. There had to be some boundaries.Collection: Tubs
Shapeshifter parenting motto—if your kid slit somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.Collection: Kids
The kid was so handsome, he almost looked unreal.Collection: Kids
I'm investigating people who sacrifice trained killers to dark gods. Perfect, it will keep him occupied. In what capacity? Bait.Collection: Dark
Put your badass face on and follow me.Collection: Badass
Judging by the hard lines of his face and the flat look in his eyes, he'd left the Marines, but the Corps hadn't quite left him.Collection: Eye
Had records so stellar, they had to lock their resumes in a drawer at night, so the golden light streaming from the pages wouldn't keep them awake.Collection: Night
The first magic wave kicked the world in the face.Collection: Magic
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.Collection: Mother
I'm going to kick you in the head when I get home. Repeatedly.Collection: Home
What do you mean fainted? Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of the vapors.Collection: Mean
Shifting in the hospital bed had blown her closet door wide open.Collection: Doors
Nobody ever died of being shot by a cookie.Collection: Cookies
Julie was an issue riding on an issue and using a third issue for a whip.Collection: Issues
If you can't make it go away, wait it out.Collection: Waiting
Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.Collection: Night
Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built into their very core.Collection: Law
Aha! So I’m not crazy.” “You are most definitely crazy,” Derek said. “But in a deranged, endearing way.Collection: Crazy
If you come, you better come in force because I will kill every single one of you. My hand won't shake, my aim won't falter. My face will be the last thing you'll see before you die." I jammed my knife into the table and walked out.Collection: Hands
He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity.Collection: Violence
Jack didn’t fully get Jesus. Audrey tried to explain it, and he could repeat it back to her, word for word, but he still didn’t comprehend most of it. The best he could gather was that Jesus lived long ago, told people to be nice, and they killed him for it. At the end, he asked who was Jesus’ necromancer and if he was in the Bible, then Kaldar couldn’t stop laughing and had to sit down.Collection: Jesus
All men are liars. All women are liars, too.Collection: Liars
I'm sorry about the dinner." "Best date ever. Well, until people died and vampires showed up. But before that it was awesome.Collection: Sorry
Every woman should be told she's attractive. Men are seduced by their eyes, women by their ears." SaimanCollection: Eye
I turned to leave and paused before the gap in the ruined wall. "One last thing, Your Majesty. I'd like a name I can put into my report, something shorter than typing out 'The Leader of the Southern Shapechanger Faction.' What should I call you?" "Lord." I rolled my eyes. He shrugged. "It's short.Collection: Wall
A massive beast dashed along the mountain apex. Astamur reached for his rifle. “A demon?” “No, not a demon.” I might have preferred one . “That’s my boyfriend.” Atsany and the shepherd turned to look at me. “Boyfriend?” Astamur said. Curran saw us. He paused on a stone crag and roared. The raw declaration of strength cracked through the mountains, rolling down the cliffs like a rockslide. “Yep. Don’t worry. He’s harmless.Collection: Worry
We were not finished yet, not even close. I could still smell her. I remembered what she felt like. What she tasted like. This wasn’t a casual sexual thing. This was a mating. I would have Kate as my mate. Whatever it took, no matter how long, she would be with me.Collection: Smell
I want to punish them. I want that punishment to be so hard, so vicious that the next who takes their place wets himself at the mere thought of trying to fight me.Collection: Fighting
I don't want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate.Collection: Loss
Curran scrutinized Mart’s face. “I can’t figure out if he wants to kill you or screw you.” “I’ll be glad to make the choice for him.” 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: Choices
Raphael turned me over and looked at me, his face close to mine. "You and I will never be done.You're my mate." He kissed the corner of my mouth. I almost cried. "I stopped sleeping since you left," he said "I'll sleep for a couple of hours, wake up, you're not there." I closed my eyes. "I need an answer, Andrea," he said. "An answer?" "Mate. Yes or no." "Do you need to ask?" I whispered. "You're my mate.Collection: Couple
Very well." He sat cross-legged on the floor of the cage. "You haven't run off so you want to talk. I will hear your explanation now." "Really, Your Majesty? So good of you to condescend. I'll try to use small words and go slow." "You're wasting my time. I know Jim betrayed me and you're covering for him. This is your chance to dazzle me wih your brillance or baffle me with your bullshit. You won't get another. When I get out, I won't be in the mood to listen.Collection: Running
If I lost him here, to this idiotic fight, after I fought and guarded him for two weeks, after I cried and thought he was dying, I would find him in the afterlife and I would murder him again.Collection: Fighting
I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.Collection: Giving
It was one of those idiotic things that could've been resolved in a split second. Tara had no right to touch Raphael, and once she did he had every right to punch her. She should've left it at that, and now she was dead because she didn't.Collection: Splits
When in doubt, poke the beehive with a stick to see if anything interesting flies out. I clapped my hands. 'I had no idea Pit teams had such pretty cheerleaders. Can you do it again, but with more spirit this time?Collection: Cheerleading
Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.Collection: People
Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she’d hook me up with a clueCollection: Missing