Blood Heir Quotes

“My patience is an infinite lake. Feel free to drown yourself.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“The things you don’t know or realize are an ocean, and your mind is a tiny boat upon its waves.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“Dakkan, my spear. My grandmother had a huge problem with that name, because the closest translation of it to English would be “Stabby.” She claimed it wasn’t a proper name for a weapon, so after the first Dakkan broke, I offered to name the new one Sharpy McStabbison, the Son of Stabby, after which she groaned and left my quarters, followed by a throng of her advisors all giving me reproachful looks.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“He leaned closer, his lips almost touching my ear. “I don’t need to see your face or smell you. I could tell it was you by the way you rode your horse.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“How did people keep finding me? I spent all this time and money making a secret hideout and literally everyone I’ve met in the last two days now knew where it was.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“Marten blinked at me and said in a hushed voice, “Why are we hiding in the bathroom?” “We are not hiding. We’re executing an evasive maneuver.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“Okay. I hear you. Be careful what you wish for, Princess.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“I wanted you to show me that you loved me. I wanted you to fight for me. I wanted you to do the ridiculous werewolf mating thing, where you bring me food, and flirt with me, and growl at any other male who tries to hit on me.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“I wanted you to show me that you loved me. I wanted you to fight for me.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“I would strangle her in a minute. I sat down at the table and smiled at her. “My patience is an infinite lake. Feel free to drown yourself.” There were times when ancient proverbs came in handy.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“The problem with Conlan was that he had his father’s unshakeable confidence and his mother’s mouth.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“Eight years had passed. Everything about me had changed, but I was still in love with Derek Gaunt.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“I’d been in Atlanta for less than a day. It was entirely too early to start killing people.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“Derek leaned toward me. “You paid him?” “It’s faster.” “Or I can put his head into my mouth.” “That doesn’t seem sanitary. Wouldn’t you taste their hair? Is that just a thing you do because you get bored in Alaska?”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“BD: It gets better. Ted Moynohan at this point is in charge of the Atlanta Chapter.

DA: That fuckhead again. The gift that keeps on giving. I still don’t understand how he got to be the Knight-Protector. If that man was in charge of nothing except his own dick, sooner or later he’d suspect it of presenting a danger to humanity.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“Mouthy bitch.” My middle name.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“This book was started during the first wave of COVID pandemic, when pictures of bodies loaded into refrigerated trucks were coming out of New York. It came about because an ICU nurse emailed us and asked us to post something, anything, because reading our work on her short break between grueling shifts kept her sane.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“In a true democracy, the vote of majority is absolute and has the power to override the interests of minority. In a republic, the individual rights of a citizen are absolute, and the vote of majority cannot infringe upon them.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters,”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“The things you don’t know or realize are an ocean, and your mind is a tiny boat upon its waves.”

Ancient disses were the best.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“Thomas Hobbes called. He wants his thesis back.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“Ascanio leaned in the doorway, arms crossed, a slight smile on his lips. It had to be his sexy, nonchalant pose. I wasn’t sure if I was expected to toss my underwear at his feet or just fall back with my legs in the air.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“How did Curran’s son get hurt?” “Well, there was this woman…” “And what possessed you to detain a human woman in the middle of the night? Also, why is Bob missing an arm?”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“A fully human Derek stood right in front of me. His eyes were aglow, and he looked at me as if I were the thing he wanted most in the entire world.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“All gods feed on suffering. Without it, there are no prayers or offerings. Mankind is selfish. They give only when they have to. If this world was idyllic and life was just, what need would there be for gods?”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“Praise the Lord and get the fireballs ready.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“My life was a circus. A circus full of thieves, and stupid shapeshifters, and small children executing evasive maneuvers.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“He stepped away from me. His gaze was impossible to hold. “Okay. I hear you. Be careful what you wish for, Princess.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“I have to convince a paranoid man prone to spree-killing and snap judgements that someone isn’t a threat.” “He’s right to be paranoid. This is a city of fools, incompetents, and madmen. I haven’t felt this young in centuries.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“It didn’t matter how powerful you were. Life always found ways to stab you and twist the knife in the wound. Nobody was immune.”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir