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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2dc599b | Let's hope your lion has some brains, otherwise your child will be a dimwit. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 1febc42 | People always long for the good old days," Christopher said, his light eyes thoughtful. "We look at the past with rose-colored glasses." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 70a1831 | He chuckled into my hair. My body decided this would be a fine moment to remember that his body was wrapped around mine and his body was muscular, hard, and hot, and my butt was pressed against his groin. Cuddled up by a dragon. No, thank you. Let me off this train. "If you keep wiggling, things might get uncomfortable," he said into my ear, his voice like a caress. "I'm doing my best, but thinking about baseball only takes you so far." | mad-rogan nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 93a7683 | Well," Caldenia said. "Nobody can say that this siege is boring." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 6d98a4b | It's not like I could kill Curran now. It's not like I kill Curran now. I could always try. Later. The Beast Lord crossed his arms on his chest. His face looked placid. Calm before the storm . . . The jaguar at my feet tensed and tried to look smaller. Nick needed a bit of a distraction while he rode like a bat out of hell on the horse commandeered from the Pack stables. I'd provided that distraction by leading Jim and his posse of piss.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 9af70b8 | Having a fling with you doesn't appeal to me. You're handsome, but you're too inexperienced and too arrogant to be good in bed. Having ridden many horses doesn't make you a good rider; it just proves that you can't recognize a good one or don't know how to keep her. You're too young for me, and in ten years, when you improve, I will be too old for you. So let's not speak of this again. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 06ee6f3 | That's because I don't hunt. I'm a male lion. I weigh six hundred pounds. Do you really expect me to scamper through the brush after deer? When I want a steak, I want a damn steak. I don't want to chase it around the woods for two hours and then eat it raw. I have food brought to me, and the only time I get off my ass is when something threatens the Pack. I've been on exactly one hunt in the last three years. I went because I had to go, and.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0ab1594 | And you brought the ski mask?" "Yes. It's not cold, though, even up above." "It's not for the cold. The pegasi like to chase birds. Birds don't like to be chased." "Okay." Whatever that meant. Chapter 10 BIRDS WERE ASSHOLES." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 38fafc2 | Stay near me on the way back." Surprise slapped her face. She turned it into cold arrogance. "Worried about my survival?" "Don't want to miss an opportunity to use you as a body shield." "How sweet of you." "Stay near me, Elara." He walked away before she could come back at him with something clever." -- | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f308ebc | It was one thing to be attracted to bad boys, something I usually didn't suffer from. It was another to be attracted to bad men. Mad Rogan was a really bad, bad man. If he wanted something, he bought it, or persuaded you to give it to him, or just simply took it. I had to make sure he didn't want me. Because if he decided he did, it would be on his terms, and I wouldn't like it. No, I would like it, which was even worse. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| cdb93ad | You do remember the lessons, however. Rome--corrupt, rich, and disorganized, a republic that ruled the world yet couldn't rule itself. Its senators fighting for power in vicious political squabbles; the policies of compromise forgotten in favor of personal gain. Its armies pledging their loyalty to their generals rather than to the republic they were meant to serve. Its population torn between the Optimates, supporting the traditional rule,.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 9a07f61 | How did your day go?" "I got some head. It was vamp, but still." I stared at her. Kate was the last person I would have expected to make that joke. Well, someone had loosened up since mating. "That good, huh." "Yup." | gunmetal-magic ilona-andrews | Ilona Andrews | |
| 61d3a9f | Ghastek stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, sipping coffee from a white mug that read, Graveyard Shift: We do it in the dark. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 2b60afa | He puts himself between evil creatures and small children. He protects us. He is my monster, Commander. Should any rough men come here and try to take what is ours, he will remind them of that. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 75ed17e | He focused on me completely, the same way he did when he asked me a question and waited for an answer. It was almost impossible to look away. If he ever fell in love--which probably wasn't possible, given that he was likely a psychopath--his would be the kind of devotion people fantasized about. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 1b9ea09 | You're Mad Rogan!" Leon burst out. "Yes," Mad Rogan said, his voice calm. "And you can break cities?" "Yes." "And you have all this money and magic?" "Yes." Where was Leon going with this? My cousin blinked. "And you look . . . like that?" Mad Rogan nodded. "Yes." Leon's dark eyes went wide. He looked at Mad Rogan, then glanced down at himself. At fifteen, Leon weighed barely a hundred pounds. His arms and legs were like chopsticks. "There.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 590c008 | I'm coming with you. Mother, lock the doors and set the alarm. We'll take the van and the Barrett." "Would the Barrett be enough?" Grandma Frida asked. "Isn't he supposed to bounce bullets off of his chest?" "It fires .50 cal at twice the speed of sound. It will hit him before he ever hears the shot." My mother crossed her arms. "I'd like to see him bounce that off his chest." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 50ff1a5 | Rose pushed on his chest with her hand. "If you let go of me now, I'm going to chalk your mauling of me up to temporary insanity." He kissed her again, lightly brushing her lips. "Declan!" His grass green eyes laughed at her. "I wanted you to be sure that I wasn't temporarily insane." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 1318f17 | Shit" Bug said, his face sour. "It's that thing again. We've been dealing with it since Pierce. You think you have a lead and then poof" - he made a puffing motion with his fingers - "it melts into nothing and all you have is frustration and the far noise your face makes when you hit you desk with it." Fart.... what?" | farts funny nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 910a974 | Six feet two inches tall and built like he could punch through solid walls and dodge a bullet at the same time, Jim projected a concentrated promise to kick your ass. It emanated from him like heat from a sidewalk. He never actually threatened you, but when he entered a room full of hard cases, bigger men backed off, because when he looked at them, they heard their bones breaking. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 89f7935 | I don't want to play anymore ... I love you. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| e5ead0e | We would screw up our children. It was inevitable. Julie had taught me that you never get the child you want or expect. You get the child you get and you try your best to make sure they turn out to be a decent human being. That was all that mattered. An | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 577b2cb | Mr. Ramirez looked at Sean and me one last time and smiled. "Good luck with your jogging." No. He didn't just wish Sean and I happy jogging." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| d6d746d | The Scourge of Mexico and the most terrifying Prime in Houston unhinged his manly jaws and said the only thing he could, "Yes, Mother." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| d8aa8f8 | Get up, dear. We do not let our enemies win. We claw their hearts out and devour them. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 98358ed | Because he doesn't want me talking to my grandmother." Barabas looked at Curran. Curran shrugged. "It's a family thing. Sometimes your father puts your semidead grandmother into a really bad place and is ashamed of it." "Yeah," Barabas said. "We've all been there." "You two are a riot," I told them." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 3d307c7 | I bloody hated bodyguard detail. On regular jobs, I had to depend only on myself. But bodyguard detail was a couple's kind of dance. You had to work with the body you guarded, and in my experience, bodies proved uncooperative. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 42f041c | So, are we still on tonight? For our dinner?" I asked. "Hell, yes. We're on for tonight. We're on for tomorrow. We're on for the foreseeable future." -- | hidden-legacy mad-rogan nevada-baylor wildfire | Ilona Andrews | |
| d647403 | Never show a weakness; never show pain. The vulnerable get eaten. She would break down later when she was alone, but neither he nor anyone else would ever see it. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 7d1dc88 | Your father would be proud of you. Don't ever doubt that. The agency is his legacy, Nevada. You make sure that it thrives and its name stands for something." Right now it stood for "we get ourselves into violent messes and then heroically try to get out of them." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 6c98011 | Do you remember that big speech I made in your garage?" "Which one?" I sighed. "You've made several. I'm contemplating installing a personal soapbox with your name on it." "The one where I said you would beg to climb into my bed?" "Ah. That one. How could I forget? I kept waiting for you to pound your chest like a silverback gorilla." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 6a05b07 | Augustine had emailed them to me segregated into two helpful categories: will kill you and can kill you. This was going to be one hell of a soiree. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f9455c0 | The beasties dashed left, rounded the corner, and stopped before a square foot-wide vent secured by a metal grate. "Use the small tooth," Cornelius intoned. "Open the burrow." "I'm in a Disney movie," Augustine said, his face disgusted." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 528d02b | People lie for many reasons: to save themselves, to get out of trouble, to avoid hurting someone's feelings. Manipulators lie to get what they want. Narcissists lie to make themselves seem grand to others and themselves. Recovering alcoholics lie to safeguard their tattered reputations. And those who love us most lie to us most of all, because life is a bumpy ride and they want to smooth it out as much as possible. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| a7f8166 | We live in Houston, Texas!" Grandma wiped her hands with a rag. "You'd get heat stroke." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| c4322c0 | People lie for many reasons: to save themselves, to get out of trouble, to avoid hurting someone's feelings. Manipulators lie to get what they want. Narcissists lie to make themselves seem grand to others and themselves. Recovering alcoholics lie to safeguard their tattered reputations. And those who love us most lie to us most of all, because life is a bumpy ride and they want to smooth it out as much as possible. John Rutger lied because .. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 2596f79 | Or a stuffed animal. I would've cuddled with it at night." I sighed heavily. "Oh well. I guess that's never going to happen." Arabella giggled. Grandma pointed the breaker bar at her. "Quiet in the peanut gallery." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 8bf3ebe | Time stopped and for a few blissful moments there was nothing except Connor, intoxicating and irresistible, the taste of him, the scent of him, the raw male power of his arms, and the tender seducing touch of his lips... And then I was out of the car and gone before the power of that kiss wore off. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| d6366c6 | Thoughts crawled around my head in all directions like big lazy caterpillars. I gave up, closed my eyes, and let myself drift. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| cf481a4 | Adam's eyes narrowed. "I've looked you up. You're small potatoes, Snowflake." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| b5ec64a | Sometimes bad shit happens, and you have to protect the people you love," Leon said. "It would be nice if you can do that and keep your hands clean but life doesn't work that way. Life is messy, and sometimes you must do what needs to be done to keep your family safe. It doesn't make you a bad person." I'd have to thank Kurt. "One day some other Prime will threaten our House, and when that day comes, I'll hill him." What? "I'll do it quiet .. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 967d88d | The law of miracles is operable by any man who has realized that the essence of creation is light. A master is able to employ his divine knowledge of light phenomena to project instantly into perceptible manifestation the ubiquitous light atoms. The actual form of the projection (whatever it be: a tree, a medicine, a human body) is determined by the yogi's wish and by his power of will and of visualisation. At | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 71df547 | Todo mejorara en el futuro, si estas haciendo un esfuerzo espiritual en el presente. Sri Yukteswar a Paramahansa Yogananda | spirituality | Paramahansa Yogananda | |
| a63429f | Pretty speech," he said. "It's the only one I've got." "I know what's really going on here. You're scared to step into my world. Afraid you can't hack it. Much better to hide here and be a big fish in a very small pond." "If that's the way you see it, fine." I raised my chin. "I have nothing to prove to you, Rogan." "But now I have something to prove to you," he said. "I promise you, I will win, and by the time I'm done, you won't walk, you.. | Ilona Andrews |