Annelie

“What is it you want from me, Hugh?”
“Short term, I’d like you to say my name with a please attached to it. I’d like to walk into Jester Park with you on my arm.”
[...]
“Long term, I want to win. And I will win, Kate. You’ll put up a good fight, but eventually you’ll be sleeping in my bed and fighting with me back to back. We’ll be good together. I promise you.”
“What part of no don’t you understand?”
“The part where I don’t get what I want.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Breaks

“Sohut was looking at her with a mix of horror and disbelief—the same look you’d probably give someone who could burp the alphabet and the Star Wars theme without effort.”
― A.G. Wilde, Sohut’s Protection

“If she survives this, Jude is going to punish her, Gage is going to do something sappy, Ezekiel will do something pathetic, and I’m going to fuck her into a coma so that she can’t do it again any time soon.”
― Kristy Cunning, One Apocalypse

“She sort of had a mushroom childhood.'
'A what?'
'She was plunked down in the dark and fed a lot of bullshit.”
― Dana Marie Bell, Bear Necessities