The Inheritance Quotes

“He looked into her eyes and saw steel-hard resolve staring back. She wasn’t bluffing. He knew that if he tried to contain her, she and that so-called dog would explode with violence. A part of him wanted to do it just to see how strong she was. He hadn’t felt so alive in years.”
― Ilona Andrews, The Inheritance

“The Tsuun wanted my mother because she was a threat. I would use her legacy. I had to get out and study the gem. I needed to learn what it contained, how to access it quickly, and where to find the information I required. I needed to know what we faced. I needed to learn the limits of my new body. All of this meant I would need to hide until I accomplished that.”
― Ilona Andrews, The Inheritance

“The fox eyed me, then looked at Bear gnawing on her bone. “She won’t hurt you unless you try to hurt us first. She’s my dog and she’s a good girl.” The fox’s eyes narrowed to slits. It leaned back and giggled. The sound was startling. It laughed at me. The little asshole understood me.”
― Ilona Andrews, The Inheritance

“Reducing your enemy to the level of a bug or a mindless monster eliminated the guilt of taking their life.”
― Ilona Andrews, The Inheritance

“He wanted none of that in the guild. If you didn’t have the discipline or moral resilience to remain faithful to the one person who should’ve mattered most in your life, how could anyone rely on you in the breach, where lives were on the line?”
― Ilona Andrews, The Inheritance

“surrendered to my fate and bit into the thin slice. No flash of pain. No broken glass. It tasted vile and it stank, but it was meat. I was squatting by the river in a breach and eating raw meat. I’d gone completely feral.”
― Ilona Andrews, The Inheritance

“Jackson was arguably the best healer in the US. He didn’t drink, he didn’t get high, and his biggest vice was collecting expensive bonsai.”
― Ilona Andrews, The Inheritance

“I could carry her. She was a big dog, she had to weigh… I flexed again. Seventy-six pounds. And that was a lot more precise than normal. My talent helped me ballpark weight and distance, but not with that much accuracy. I focused. Seventy-six pounds and four ounces or thirty-four kilograms and five hundred and eighty-six grams. Fuck me. I didn’t just get vision. My talent had gotten a mysterious upgrade.”
― Ilona Andrews, The Inheritance

“Ada, London is checking you out again,” Melissa said. Next to me, Stella, Melissa’s baby-faced protégé, snickered quietly. She was twenty, and flirting was still exciting.”
― Ilona Andrews, The Inheritance

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed,’” Samantha quoted. “That’s great. When we are hauled before a congressional committee and the guild is in danger of being disbanded, you can tell them we did it because The Little Prince said so.”
― Ilona Andrews, The Inheritance

“I would have to take it off. It was as big as it could be and already pinching her body. If she got any bigger, it would hurt her.”
― Ilona Andrews, The Inheritance

“What are you so happy about? I’m mad at you. At least have the decency to look embarrassed.” Bear twitched her ears. Bear and decency clearly had nothing to do with each other.”
― Ilona Andrews, The Inheritance