Emerald Blaze Quotes

“As it happened so often with our species, logical reasoning was discarded in favor of the overpowering need to be right, facts and consequences be damned.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“Arabella squinted back. “You’re almost nine months pregnant. Shouldn’t you be soft, and happy, and glowing? When are we gonna see some glow?”

Arabella clearly had a death wish.

Nevada finished her pickle spear and licked honey off her fingertips. “I’m the size of a house, the kid inside me keeps kicking me in the kidneys, I have to pee every five minutes, my legs cramp, and I can’t get out of bed by myself. I have to roll to the side like a walrus, which is harder right now since my husband is somewhere in the Russian Empire and he isn’t there to steady me. And how was your day of being young, beautiful, skinny, and carefree? Why aren’t you glowing?”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“Leon had pestered me during dinner one night, I lost control, and the black wings made their debut. The family was stunned into silence for a whole thirty seconds. And then everyone called me Goth Princess for a week and Arabella kept leaving vampire novels by my door.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“Life is full of surprises,” he said. “Try to cope with grace.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“Neither did I, but unlike Leon, I would be highly unlikely to shoot each of them through the left eye “for symmetry reasons.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“Stephen spared her a look that was part patience and part condescension. “I’m a Chinese American, so of course I spend all my free time in a secret monastery learning kung fu and practicing spiritual cultivation. Because one day a demon king shall descend onto Houston and only my Ninth Level Thunder Fist Punch will stand in his way.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“Your ego would survive an apocalypse.” “Thank you.” “It wasn’t a compliment.” “It was to me.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“Things would be so easy if it wasn’t for feelings.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“I won’t let him hurt you.” His voice, so suffused with rage a moment ago, was ice cold now, measured and calm, and the determination in his eyes scared me more than his anger. “I’ll kill anyone who tries to end your life. I’ll answer any question you ask. I’ll pay any price to keep you alive. Let me protect you.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“Is he right there next to you?” Bug roared into the phone. “Is that spoiled moneyfucker in the room with you now, Catalina?”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“Don’t you get it? Right here, right now, you are everything I ever wanted. I don’t care about money, connections, or reputation. We can earn all these things, together. I just want you. You’re so much more than I hoped for. If you come home with me, I’ll be the luckiest person alive.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“I broke my own heart, Leon. He was just the hammer I hit it with.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“Humble is for losers. I am a winner.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“The relationship might have meant nothing to him, but it was my first. I hadn’t known it was necessary to guard myself against committing completely. I didn’t realize it was doomed from the start. I just fell in love.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“Living things have minds. Animated things have matrixes.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“He doesn't like his son's choice...
Father "Because you could do better!"
Albert pointed to me. "Better than that? There's a fucking angel of death in your study and you thought I could do better?"
"I didn't have all the information at the time. She wouldn't give you the time of day. I was sick of watching you chasing after her like some lovesick puppy."
"Did I ask for your help?"
"I am your father! I look after your future! They're an upstart House, and Victoria Tremaine will rip them to shreds when she gets out.:
"My grandmother trusted me to hand this matter," I said. "I'm here instead of her as a courtesy to Albert because of our friendship. House Tremaine doesn't suffer fools, Mr Ravenscroft. Don't be one.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“I looked at my tiny, red-faced nephew, reached out, and touched his little fist. Everything hit me at once. I wrapped my arms around the baby, sat down on the floor, and cried.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“I’m not leaving.” His voice was a ragged growl. “I tried, because I can offer you nothing and you deserve so much more. You deserve someone better, but I’m a selfish bastard and I can’t stay away. I can’t give you up.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“Bug, I don’t have a choice. Can you do this for me or not?” “Of course I’ll do it. Here is my price. Next time you see him, I want you to tell him, ‘Hey dickfucker, Bug is watching you.’ Because I am.” He hung up.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“was a sad day when your safest way home was a rabid killer who broke your heart and you were getting into his car to prove to yourself that you weren’t a coward.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“I’m sorry I treated you as an amateur. I’m sorry I tried to force you to abandon the investigation into the death of your friend’s mother. I’m sorry for the things I said. I’m sorry I left. I’m sorry I didn’t call.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“There were three certainties in Houston: death, taxes, and never-ending roadwork.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“You can’t just murder the saint of Houston without some pomp and circumstance.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“Victoria leaned forward. “Never trust an altruist. Humans are selfish creatures. The only people who give away money either haven’t earned it or are trying to buy prestige or absolution with it. She has prestige. What has she done that she needs to atone so badly?”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“I was mourning the old me. For the new me to emerge, the old me had to disappear, and killing her bit by bit hurt.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“Once I mentioned Alessandro, the family had ganged up on me. Arabella screamed like a pterodactyl and demanded to know where Alessandro was staying, while punching her palm with her fist. Bern swore, which had happened exactly six times since he came to live with us. Grandma Frida promised to hit Alessandro with a wrench when he came over. Leon produced a gun, and then Mom asked him what the rule was about guns at the dinner table, and then he said that this was a special case and he had a bullet with Alessandro’s name on it. Then she told him that writing names on bullets was no way to go through life.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“My mom once told me that the American Dream was to live better than your parents.” “Do you think it’s true?” he asked. “I think everyone defines better differently. Some want more money. Others want more time.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“Taking a life always hurt. It never went away, no matter how justified the kill was. It still cost you a piece of your soul and it hurt when that piece died.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze

“I had learned that life was a vicious bitch and people were complicated. They lied to themselves.”
― Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze