Magic Bleeds Quotes:

Kate Daniels, deadly swordmaster. Fear my twitching pinkie.

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.242, Penguin

topic: Twitching, Kate, Magic Bleeds

Hold your horses. I'm coming."... "From where I'm standing you're just breathing laboriously." The snow swam out of focus. "Breathing hard. Are you coming or just breathing hard. You've got to get your one-liners straight.

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Horse, Breathing, Snow, Magic Bleeds

Next to me, Saiman smiled. "We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck.

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.142, Penguin

topic: Want, Next, Necks, Magic Bleeds

You slept with Curran and you didn’t tell me? I’m your best friend.” “It didn’t come up.” “How disappointing for you.” Ha-ha. “That’s not what I meant.

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Your Best Friend, Disappointing, Come Up, Magic Bleeds

Juke glanced into her cup before tipping it down to her mouth. "Screw you!" "Now come on, sugar, you know I don't swing that way." "Whatever!

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.62, Penguin

topic: Swings, Tipping, Mouths, Screw You, Magic Bleeds

When I'm with him, I can feel myself getting better. It's like he's picking up broken pieces of me and putting me back together, and I don't even know he's doing it. We never talk about it. We don't go to therapy. He just loves me and that's enough.

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.85, Penguin

topic: Broken, Together, Get Better, Just Love Me, Broken Pieces

you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Regret, Fighting, Want, Dangerous World, Magic Bleeds

What's that?" "That's my attack poodle.

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Poodles, Magic Bleeds

The rabbis paled. I’d managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.170, Penguin

topic: Men, Holy, Beats, Encores, Holy Man

Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it.

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Work, Thinking, Want, I Want You To Be Happy, Magic Bleeds

He'd laugh in my face, then I'd slice him to ribbons and then he'd break my neck

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.15, Penguin

topic: Laughing, Ribbons, Faces, Magic Bleeds

I know it may come as a shock, but it's sort of considered polite to wait for the consent of the woman. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if you don't wait, you may have to deal with pesky criminal charges like kidnapping and rape.

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Waiting, Criminals, May, Kidnapping, Magic Bleeds

Well, check this out. Mine is bigger.

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.124, Penguin

topic: Checks, Bigger, Wells, Magic Bleeds

When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected establishments, find the powerful people who run them and are viewed as invincible, and kill them. You want to destroy the morale first. Once the people's resolve is gone and everyone is scared for their own skin, the city is yours.

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Running, Powerful, Cities, Magic Bleeds

Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.195, Penguin

topic: Lectures, Fit, Babylon, Hissy Fits, Magic Bleeds

Im's offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk's claws as it strikes its prey. They demonstrate their contraptions and everyone marvels. My children get drunk, confuse a herd of cows with an enemy regiment, and slaughter the lot, screaming like lunatics until the entire army panics.

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Stars, Children, Army, Magic Bleeds

And you expect me to commute two hours each way from the Keep to the Order." I kept my voice mild. "I suppose I won't be needing my job, my house, or my clothes anymore." "I didn't say that. Although let me get back to you on the clothes. It's still under consideration.

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.161, Penguin

topic: Jobs, Order, Two, Magic Bleeds

I've read your summary." "And?" "It's not incompetent." Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon?

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Heart, Phrases, Crayon, Summary, Magic Bleeds

On your best day, you're only as good as I am on my worst with one arm tied behind my back.

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.220, Penguin

topic: Arms, Behind My Back, Worst, Magic Bleeds

I'll call you," he repeated. "If you call me, I won't pick up the phone." "You will wait by the phone for my call, and when it rings, you will pick it up and you will speak to me in a civil manner. If you don't know how, ask someone.

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.74, Penguin

topic: Phones, Waiting, Speak, Magic Bleeds

I also stole a small yellow doughnut from the box of Duncan's doughnuts in the rec room and fed it to the attack poodle in my office. He made a great production of it. First, he growled at the doughnut, just to show it who was boss. Then he nudged it with his nose. Then he licked it, until finally he snagged it into his mouth and chomped it with great pleasure, dropping crumbs all over the carpet.

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.89, Penguin

topic: Yellow, Office, Boss, Duncan, Magic Bleeds