Ilona Andrews Quotes

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• First rule of bodyguard detail: know where your 'body' is at all times.

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  Details, Body, Firsts

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.145, Penguin

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• If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.

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  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.128, Penguin

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• Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would pick up the sword and try to stab the dummy. It is human nature.

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  Father, Men, Practice

  Ilona Andrews (2007). “Magic Bites”, p.110, Penguin

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• It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers.

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  Hats, Looks, Boots

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.103, Penguin

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• I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.

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  Fall, Kissing, Shoes

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.17, Penguin

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• When I'm with him, I can feel myself getting better. It's like he's picking up broken pieces of me and putting me back together, and I don't even know he's doing it. We never talk about it. We don't go to therapy. He just loves me and that's enough.

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  Broken, Get Better, Together

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.85, Penguin

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• Humans tend to segregate the world: enemies on one side, friends on the other. Friends are the people we know. Enemies are the Other. You can do just about anything to the Other. It doesn't matter if this Other is actually guilty of any crimes, because it is a matter of emotion, not logic. You see angry people aren't interested in justice, they just want an excuse to vent their rage.

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  People, Justice, Enemy

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• Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can.

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  Cat, Order, Prove

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.47, Penguin

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• "Did those nice church ladies come by again?" He nodded. "I asked them if a man died and then the woman remarried, and then the three of them met in heaven, would it be a sin for them to have a threesome, since they were all married in God's eye. And they decided they were late to be somewhere else."

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  Nice, Eye, Men

  "Gunmetal Magic". Book by Ilona Andrews, 2012.

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• I looked at him. "You really need to work on your threats. I can't tell if you're threatening me or inviting me for tea.

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  Tea, Needs, Threatening

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.70, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Law, Weakness, Disease

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.123, Penguin

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• When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you.

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  Dog, Enough, Walks

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.99, Penguin

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• Having a fling with you doesn't appeal to me. You're handsome, but you're too inexperienced 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.

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  Horse, Bed, Handsome

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Steel's Edge”, p.68, Penguin

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• I'm sorry about the dinner." "Best date ever. Well, until people died and vampires showed up. But before that it was awesome.

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  Sorry, People, Vampire

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.271, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Nice, Long Ago

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• I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen.

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  Faces, Punching, Stay Cool

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.65, Penguin

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• Do you know what separates adults from children? Self-discipline. We don’t want to go to work, we don’t want to do our chores, and we don’t want to make unpleasant decisions, but we do all those things because we’re aware of the consequences which will follow if we don’t.

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  Children, Self, Discipline

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• Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar away from him, and you'll get yourself a fight.

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  Fighting, Men, Trying

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.140, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Running, Bullshit, Trying

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• I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.

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  Giving, Insult, Talent

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• Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.

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  People, Eccentric, Rich

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.25, Penguin

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• Help me, I can’t breathe, your ego is pushing all the air out of the room.

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  Air, Ego, Rooms

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.243, Penguin

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• In there?' She nodded. 'You want us to go into the tortoise?' Another nod. 'It's alive.' Another nod.

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  Alive, Want, Tortoises

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.143, Penguin

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• Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise.

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  Nice, Giants, Outsiders

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.143, Penguin

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• I think I've been rather reasonable about this whole situation." "How do you figure?" "They are still breathing, aren't they?

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  Thinking, Breathing, Figures

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.100, Penguin

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