Origins Quotes

“Only one question remained. Karina took a deep breath and closed the distance between her and Lucas. She lifted her face and looked into his green eyes and kissed him. For a moment he stood still and then he kissed her back, his mouth eager and hungry for her. When they broke apart, Henry was staring at them. “I am confused,” Henry said. “Well, I can’t let you go back on your own,” Karina said. “All beat up and sad. Arthur might kill you somehow, or Daniel will bring the house down, or Henry, you might poison everyone with your cooking.”
― Ilona Andrews, Origins

“And she wanted to see him bend, to find out what it would be like to see the vulnerability of intimacy in those hard eyes. She was completely powerless and she needed to feel powerful, as a woman does who is wanted so badly by a man, he would do anything for her.”
― Ilona Andrews, Origins

“Karina shut her eyes. She could picture herself wrapped in those powerful arms. It would feel safe, so safe. Her life was broken like a mirror and the shards kept cutting her fingers.”
― Ilona Andrews, Origins

“She frowned. “So twisting bones out of your sockets is the way he demonstrates his displeasure at being pushed around?”
― Ilona Andrews, Origins

“Jill meant well, but her life was a string of self-created emergencies, which she then cheerfully overcame.”
― Ilona Andrews, Origins