I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

— Ilona Andrews

I’d missed him so much, it almost hurt. It started the moment I left the Keep and nagged at me all day. Every day I had to fight with myself to keep from making up bullshit reasons to call the Keep, so I could hear his voice. My only saving grace was that Currant wasn’t handling this whole mating thing any better. Yesterday he’d called me at the office claiming that he couldn’t find his socks. We talked for two hours.

— Ilona Andrews

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.

— Ilona Andrews

If she died as a result of this journey, it wouldn't be because of slavers. It would be because Richard's inability to communicate would give her a heart attack.

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Ilona Andrews

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.

— Ilona Andrews

I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy.

— Ilona Andrews

I have a serious question."" I will give a serious answer."" Can a god be killed?" The humor drained from Roman's face. "Well, that depends on if you're a pantheist or a Marxist."" What's the difference?"" The first believes that divinity is the universe. The two are synonymous and nonexistent without each other. The second believes in anthropocentric, seeing man in the center of the universe, and god as just an invention of human conscience. Of course, if you follow Nietzsche, you can kill God just by thinking about him.

— Ilona Andrews

I know human nature. We might sacrifice a few, because we are stupid and hardwired for group survival. But we would never die in the thousands because a god wished it. Those kinds of numbers require material gains, like power, wealth, territory.

— Ilona Andrews

I like home. It’s warm and there are books.

— Ilona Andrews