Maren > Maren's Quotes

“It's not funny. I've got a naked drunk vampire running around in my orchard.”
― Ilona Andrews, Clean Sweep

“I suggest you give up now. According to my
research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.”
― Ilona Andrews, Clean Sweep

“I think you feel more deeply than most people ever do; you just don’t know how to show it. You always feel—out of step. You’re not like the people around you, and they know it as well as you do. And you think it’s because something’s wrong with you, so you retreat deeper into the background. That just means people don’t get to know the real you.
You’re lonely. You’ve been lonely so long I think you’ve forgotten there’s any other way to be.”
― Claudia Gray, Ten Thousand Skies Above You

“There is a strength within us that we can't even comprehend until it's called upon. We are, at our core, built to survive.”
― Claudia Gray, Ten Thousand Skies Above You

“But grief changes. It softens, adapts its shape to become a part of you. That kind of sorrow never gets any lighter, but you grow accustomed to the weight as you carry it on.”
― Claudia Gray, Ten Thousand Skies Above You

“I want you when it’s crazy, when it’s frightening, when it’s impossible, because there’s nothing within you that could hurt me half as much as not having you.”
― Claudia Gray, Ten Thousand Skies Above You

“Is there anything else you need to tell me?”
Every time I look at you, I have to put a leash on myself. “No.”
― Ilona Andrews, Bayou Moon

“We can't begin to learn until we admit how much we don't know.”
― Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

“Why couldn't she have gotten another Edger or some dimwit from the Broken for a passenger? No, she got Lord Leather Pants here.”
― Ilona Andrews, Bayou Moon

“One day, she’d find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it.”
― Ilona Andrews, On the Edge

“Living in your dreams meant bitter disappointment when you woke up.”
― Ilona Andrews, On the Edge

“She could've stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by.”
― Ilona Andrews, Bayou Moon

“Life was too short and ended too suddenly. If you didn't take advantage of what you had today, tomorrow it might be ripped from you.”
― Ilona Andrews, Bayou Moon

“Friends make the world bearable. It’s an honor of sorts. Of all the people that a person knows, they pick you to be their friend, and you try to be worthy of that friendship.”
― Ilona Andrews, On the Edge

“You don't cause problems. You cause catastrophes.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Burns

“Have you ever met someone and felt . . . I don't know how to describe it, felt a chance at having something that eluded you? I don't know . . . Forget I said anything."
I knew what he meant. He was describing that moment when you realize that you are lonely. For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely. It stabs at you, almost like a physical pain, and you feel both deprived and angry, deprived because you wish to be with that person and angry, because their absence brings you misery. It's a strange feeling, akin to desperation, a feeling that makes you wait by the phone even though you know that the call is an hour away. I was not going to lose my balance. Not yet.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites

“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, Magic Bleeds

“I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Bleeds

“Just reflecting on the fact that when the Universe punches you in the teeth, it never just lets you fall down. It kicks you in the ribs a couple of times and dumps mud on your head.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Strikes

“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, Magic Bleeds

“Why the rifle? Everybody knows you can’t shoot.”
Who were these everybodies and would they like to stand in front of me, preferably within ten feet, so I could discuss this issue in greater detail.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Strikes

“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, Magic Bleeds

“Kate Daniels, deadly swordmaster. Fear my twitching pinkie.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Bleeds

“I paused with the pen in my hand. "He burst into flames?"
"He became engulfed in fire."
"Was his buddy made out of orange rocks and at any point yell, 'It's clobbering time'?”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Bleeds

“Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I’d ever make.”
― Colleen Houck

“Why does everything so bad for you always taste so dreamy?”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

“He then put both hands on the door on either side of my head and leaned in close, pinning me against it. I trembled like a downy rabbit caught in the clutches of a wolf. The wolf came closer. He bent his head and began nuzzling my cheek. The problem was…I wanted the wolf to devour me.”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

“What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know.”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

“Bad things sometimes happen to good people; the key to happiness is try to make the best of, and be thankful for the hand we're dealt”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

“Don't you see, Ren? That's exactly why I have to go. You need to know that you can survive without me. That's there's more to life than just me. You need to see this world that's opened up to you and know that you have choices. I refuse to be your cage”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse