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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6715826 | Sorry about our . . . altercation in the buggy. I was only playing. I'm Raphael." "The one who likes the hurting." I moved to shake his hand and he reversed it and kissed my fingers instead, singeing me with a look that was pure smolder. I took my hand back. "That woke me up." He smiled a picture-perfect smile. "Been a while?" For some reason, I felt like answering. "Two years. And if you could tone down that smile, I'd appreciate it. Getti.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| b7fc33e | I'm trying to understand." I opened my eyes. Explaining my moral code really wasn't my forte. "Imagine you're being chased by wolves. You're running through the woods, no settlement in sight, and you come across a baby lying abandoned on the ground. Do you save the baby or do you leave him for the wolves?" I saw the hesitation in his dark eyes. "I'd leave the little bastard," he declared, a bit too loudly. "Would slow the wolves down." "You.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 990a820 | Teddy bear looked like he was suffering from murder withdrawal. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 193b0fd | Cyanide," I explained. "You can't kill him with that." Curran grimaced. "It's not for him. It's for me." They stared at me. "People were dying," I said. "He was laughing, and all I could do was to sit tight and be safe." Curran growled. "You think it's easy for me?" "No. But you're used to it. You have experience with responsibility for people's lives. I don't. I don't want anybody else to die for me. I'm up to my knees in blood as is." "I .. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 87b173e | If the dog could hum, he'd be singing "La-la-la!" in tune with his footsteps. Cough sauntered over to him. William pressed against the wall. No bullets. So far, so good. Cough clenched, and vomited something chunky onto the grass. Terrific. The big dog sat on his haunches and looked at William with a perplexed expression on his face. "Well, eat it back up," William hissed. "Don't waste it." Cough gave a tiny whine. "I'm not eating your puke.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 85ec3f2 | Tony looked at me with the long-suffering patience of an adult child who knew an educational lecture was coming and there was no way to escape. "One" -- | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0c47f54 | Also, your father." My eyes snapped open. "What about my father?" Roman blinked. "That was a bona fide snarl." Ascanio nodded, his eyes wide. "Yes, she gets scary sometimes. She's very difficult to work for." "I can imagine. " | Ilona Andrews | ||
| a8d9e93 | I'd like to go to one," she said. "It might not be my thing even, but I'd like to go at least once to say I've done it. Sometimes I feel cheated. I know it's selfish, but sometimes I wonder what it would've been like if my grandfather didn't get himself exiled. Who knows, I might have been a lady." He didn't have much use for ladies. A lady was someone else's wife or daughter or sister. They were not real, almost like trophies forever out .. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 9557855 | A pale, sweaty Corona bottle invaded my field of vision. It was clamped in a hand attached to a muscular arm with pale blond hair. "Peace offering," Curran said. Did I hear him come in? No. I took the beer. He paused on the other side of the tub. He was wearing a white gym towel. "I'm about to take the towel off and hop in," he said. "Fair warning." There are times in life when shrugging takes nearly all of your will. "I've seen you naked... | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 3fcd3cd | You should ask him where his crew is." Doolittle's face wrinkled in disgust. "Go on. Tell her." Jim didn't look like he wanted to tell me anything. "Where is Brenna?" "On the roof, keeping a lookout," Jim said. "And the rest?" Come to think of it, I hadn't seen any of them since we came out of Unicorn. "Apparently there is a band of loups near Augusta." Doolittle leveled an outraged glare at Jim. "I've been listening to it on the radio. The.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| dcf0945 | It just goes to show that no matter how great a nail you give humanity, we'll manage to hammer it into the ground crooked. We suck. It's the nature of our species. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5fe59ba | You wanted me," he said. Lying would only give him greater satisfaction. I had to keep him on the other end of the tub or I would throw myself at him again. "Yes, I did." "What happened?" "I remembered who I am and who you are." "And who am I? Enlighten me." "You're the man who likes to play games and hates losing. And I'm the idiot who keeps forgetting that. Turn around, so I can get out, please." And he almost had me too. He sprawled agai.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| cb938bf | all the types of beings one finds oneself dealing with, the true believers are the worst. A typical sentient's psyche is a spiderweb. Pull on the right thread and you will get the desired result. Praise them and they will like you. Ridicule them and they'll hate you. Greedy can be bought, timid can be frightened, smart can be persuaded, but the zealots are immune to money, fear, or reason. A zealot's psyche is a tightrope. They have severed.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| c3dcfa2 | I stopped by the super for the new key, climbed to my apartment, and studied my new lock. Big, metal, and shiny. Not a scratch on it. Even the key itself had a bizarre groove carved into it, which made the whole setup supposedly completely burglar proof. I unlocked the door, stepped inside, and shut it behind me. I kicked my shoes off, wincing at the hint of ache in my stomach. It would take a long time before it healed completely. At leas.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 157b537 | No siempre existe un noble proposito. A menudo, hay una razon, la necesidad de salvar a alguien o algo: tu amigo, tu amante, un inocente que no merece resultar herido. A veces es una razon puramente egoista. Uno puede luchar por fortalecer su cuerpo, por su buen nombre o por su cordura. A veces, es solo un trabajo, pero decidir luchar y hacerlo son dos cosas bien distintas. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 83f71cb | Those who remain have forgotten they are alive. They think they have more in common with their fallen than with their enemy. Nothing could be further from the truth. I know the difference between life and death. Two live beings from the opposite boundaries of the galaxy have infinitely more in common with each other than the living and the dead from the same family. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| eaa9d12 | People do horrible things in the name of keeping things just the way they are." "Where" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 9aea4c6 | True beauty is in how that person makes you feel. When a man truly loves you, the longer you are together, the more beautiful you will be to him. When he looks at you and you look at him, you won't just see the surface. You will see everything you shared, everything you've been through, and every happy moment you hope for." Her" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 9375c37 | It's a sword made out of your grandmother's bones, Kate. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 17b55f7 | You can do without sleep or without food, but not without both and sleep wasn't an option. | needs sleep | Ilona Andrews | |
| c55e0f9 | It's all fun and games until the drunk Viking Santa shows up. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 419f14a | No offense, right. "No offense" stood for "I'm going to insult you, but you can't be mad at me." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| c35d254 | Some things you simply accepted, the way you accepted the sunrise or the winter cold. They called it lupine fatalism, but in reality it was plain common sense. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 1df0bf4 | But whatever regrets she had, she would have to live with them. Regrets never did anyone any good. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 6b8b366 | Perhaps if you were less heavy-handed in your treatment of the guests you claim to honor and protect, your inn would have a higher rating." He did not. Oh yes, yes he did. "Perhaps if you trained the knights under your command to follow simple orders, your House would've reached greater prominence within your empire." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 7d0660e | If he ever did manage to formulate his own thought, it would likely knock him senseless. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| e600b03 | If it feels wrong, it probably is. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| e15ba76 | What kind of a woman greets the Beast Lord with 'here, kitty, kitty'?" he asked." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 53dfcf6 | No, it's human," Curran said. "That's the problem. People, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy to be a cog in a machine: you don't have to think, you have no responsibility. You're just following orders. Doing as you're told." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 22f9dd5 | For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely. It stabs at you, almost like a physical pain, and you feel both deprived and angry, deprived because you wish to be with that person, and angry because their absence brings you misery. It's a strange feeling, akin to desperation, a feeling that makes you wait by the phone even though you know .. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| b32ced2 | Curran spared me half a second of his hard stare. "Even if you thought I was in the Guild, what did you think I was doing while the giant was tearing it up? Did you think I was sitting on my hands?" "I thought you might be injured." He looked at me. "We've met, you and I?" I deliberately took a big step back. "What?" he growled. "I'm making room for your ego." "Fine. I should've left a note!" "You should've." "Answer me this, did you hesita.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 24c117e | I'm sorry, I can't hear you. My ears are still ringing from that big boom your head made when it hit the stairs. Is your brain okay? Because your skull sounded hollow. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| a331521 | once you become their Other, you're no longer a person. You're just an idea, an abstraction of everything that's wrong with their world. Give them the slightest excuse, and they will tear you down. And the easiest way for them to target you as this Other is to find something that's different about you. Color of your skin. The way you speak. The place you're from. Magic. It comes and goes in cycles, Kate. Each new generation picks their own .. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 850b61e | History had a way of rolling over the best-laid plans like a runaway bulldozer. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 7ed9fb4 | One of the rooms in the castle had a creature in it," Curran said. "What kind of creature?" "A large cat," Curran said. "It glowed." "What happened to the large glowing cat?" Why did I have a feeling I wouldn't like the answer? "I killed it," Curran said. "Aha." First, I broke Mishmar, then Curran stole Saiman back and killed my father's glowing cat. Maybe Roland's head would explode. "It was a saber-toothed tiger," Julie said. "It glowed s.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| eb1627e | Caldenia smiled. "A Quillonian chef, my dear you shouldn't have. Well you should have months ago, but one mustn't be petty. Finally. I shall be dining in a style to which I am suited. Fantastic. Does he have moral scruples I am reasonably sure this summit will result in at least one murder, and I have never tasted an otrokar." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 257287f | I got my boots out of the closet, put them on, and buckled a belt with a knife on it around my waist under my robe. Baha-char was the place where you went to find things. Sometimes things found you instead and tried to take your money. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 73a61c2 | You and me. This wasn't in the plan. The plan was to be alone, to hide, and to kill Roland. Being happy was never one of the bullet points. Some part of me is still convinced it's a fluke and eventually it will be ripped away from me. Deep down I expect it. Any hint of it and I roll down the cliff. You're mine, you know that, right? If you ever try to leave me, it won't go well. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 6f964e8 | I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It's much harder to make a man laugh--what's funny to one person isn't funny to another. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 75e6327 | typical sentient's psyche is a spiderweb. Pull on the right thread and you will get the desired result. Praise them and they will like you. Ridicule them and they'll hate you. Greedy can be bought, timid can be frightened, smart can be persuaded, but the zealots are immune to money, fear, or reason. A zealot's psyche is a tightrope. They have severed everything else in favor of their goal. They will pay any price for their victory, and that.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0f36f8e | Life had tried to kill me in all sorts of ways lately, but falling off of a flying horse was a new and unwelcome development. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 75dc3dc | This particular hyena was short and had blue hair that stuck out straight up from her head. She saw me looking. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 88bae73 | What"s that?" "That"s a steak for me and mushroom pasta for you. The pasta is made with tofu and palm oil instead of eggs. I cooked it myself. My steak is wrapped in several layers of foil. It"s not touching the container with your food, so no worries." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 2ebdbfb | You know my price," he told her. Elara leaned back and crossed her arms, her face iced over. "Really?" "The whole thing. You'll put it in your mouth and you'll swallow." What? "The whole thing?" | Ilona Andrews |