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It's not a loup cage, you know,' I told her. 'It's a holding cell. Or safe room. or secure room. I don't think Jim ever settled on a term he could live with.'
'Aha. It's a loup cage.' Andrea cleared her throat. 'I touched it with my finger and it hurt. Is that in case of marital problems?


Ilona Andrews

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By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER I caught a red bird once,
I fell in love with her,
Took the red bird home with me,
I...
QUETZAL It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Andrea raised her eyebrows. "Look at you, all high-speed."
"Yeah, you'd think I was a detective...
ILONA ANDREWS Look- here's a table covered with red cloth. On it is a cage the size of a small fish aquarium. In t...
STEPHEN KING Look- here's a table covered with red cloth. On it is a cage the size of a small fish aquarium. In t...
STEPHEN KING In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its sha...
PICO IYER Freedom is the inherent state of nature. A bird is free until you clip its wings and put it in a cag...
DANE WHALEN Look- here's a table covered with red cloth. On it is a cage the size of a small fish aquarium. In t...
STEPHEN KING ...I could feel her burrowing into my heart. I didn't know if the burrowing was like a kitten cuddli...
JASON PORTER When I was a little girl, I used to try and bring sunshine to my mother. I felt so bad that she had ...
SHERRILYN KENYON Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others.
SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its conten...
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STEPHEN KING You know the Priory? I've got a permanent room booked there in case I ever think about it.
PHILIP GREEN Life showed my her back and I touched its ass
XEVI CASTELLà TUBERT Thorne shuffled his feet. “You know, if it was a bad kiss, you can just say so.”
She stiffe...
MARISSA MEYER The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step in...
PICO IYER He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what the...
E.M. FORSTER Josephine placed the cloth back in the basin then filled a cup with cold water. Helping Laurin sit u...
SUZAN TISDALE He leaned forward to inspect her closer. "Is that all hair?"

... Sudden, overwhelming pan...
MARISSA MEYER To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her,
or if not I, the i...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Amelia stopped before him, her skirts crowded between his parted knees. The clean, salty, evergreen ...
LISA KLEYPAS She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing some...
TONI MORRISON The multicolored kitten snuggled between her breasts.

Lucky cat.

"I thought ma...
CANDIS TERRY - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You’re not like any man I’ve ever known,” she said. “You’re not even someone I could have ...
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NATHAN REESE MAHER Melody began to mumble incomprehensibly under her breath as she worked frantically on securing her m...
B.M.B. JOHNSON I thought about him going into my mom's room when she as little and holding up her report card and s...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You’re not like any man I’ve ever known,” she said. “You’re not even someone I could have ...
LISA KLEYPAS In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I ...
نزار قباني For me, the Earth had always been a kind of a safe haven, you know, where I could go to work or be i...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO Elm

BY SYLVIA PLATH

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap r...
SYLVIA PLATH I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm a...
NED VIZZINI Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I ha...
SYLVIA PLATH I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL She re-marked her lips with her lipstick. I saw sprays of silver in her coarse hair. I saw inscripti...
STEPHANIE DANLER What’s it like to live forever?
Nicholas almost dropped the glass he had been holding. “Wha...
GRACE WILLOWS Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is f...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI Hear, hear.' Sister Martha hoisted her water glass. 'Let the rigid stick of self-righteousness be di...
JACQUELINE CAREY He traced the line of her collarbone, and the side of her throat. “Did I hurt you, Daisy?” he wh...
LISA KLEYPAS I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a pin drop...
ERNIE ACCORSI You should read something else."
Why would he have done that to him?"
I don't know," she s...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I have a proposition for you,” she said, trying for a businesslike tone. “A very sensible one. Y...
LISA KLEYPAS Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"

It was remembered afterwards that ...
CHARLES DICKENS She turned to go back inside the livery stable. The excitement with which she’d
entered it le...
BONNIE DEE She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Sca...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON I don't care if she ever makes a basket that can hold grain, but I want her to be here with me. I wa...
SHAY SAVAGE You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW Well?” he asked, smiling devilishly. “I promise, I won’t hurt you, Nikki. In fact, I imagine y...
KRISTEN MIDDLETON I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sit...
HUGH LAURIE Was it ever . . .” She winced, wished she could muffle the need to ask. “Before, with anyone els...
J.D. ROBB I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back i...
CHERYL STRAYED Violet Beauregarde: [with her finger in her nose] Spitting's a nasty habit.
Willy Wonka: I know ...
WILLY WONKA In one case, I was working with a woman who told me initially that she was recommending me to all he...
KATHERINE CROWLEY Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's...
MIKE TYSON All right, my hope—but I am not saying the rest of it—I have something you need to feel.”
SHERRY THOMAS I had a very clear vision, of Selina with her hair about her shoulders, a crimson hat upon her head,...
SARAH WATERS Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage so she could stretch ...
JOHN RACHEL Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she...
JOHN RACHEL In the common room, they found Emer dozing in her chair, Lila scratching at the door, and Mine stirr...
HENRY H. NEFF Of course I wasn't pretending!” The words exploded out of her before she could stop them. Heat spr...
AMY TINTERA Even if I am just sleeping with her or just watching cartoons in bed, I know Violet values that. I t...
CHRISTINA MILIAN With a father who is a fabulous craftsman, I was raised with the fundamental belief that it is only ...
JONATHAN IVE Lorcan reached out, grasping her chin and forcing her to look at him. Hopeless, bleak eyes met his. ...
SARAH J. MAAS Abby touched her palm to my cheek. "You know what, Mr. Maddox?"
"What, baby?"
Her expressi...
JAMIE MCGUIRE “Sorry, I thought this room belonged to a red-headed girl. Is this her room?”
He c...
KATIE MCGARRY My grandfather was crying. The kind of quiet that is quiet and a secret. The kind of crying that onl...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY My brother cleared his throat. "I wish she knew that I think she is the most hilarious person on Ear...
MICHELLE HODKIN I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and hav...
CHERI OTERI 'Tis a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat; The...
NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS I don't have a ring. I don't have a pretty speech prepared. All I know is that I love you more than ...
JAY CROWNOVER She tried to hurt Fitz!" He turned to Gabriel and Dick. "That'll get her mad. "
Gabriel rolled ...
MOLLY HARPER I dont really think its all that settled yet, ... Weve got a good group of guys, though. Im sure eve...
AARON KATZ For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
KAHLIL GIBRAN I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, t...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Emily tucks her knees up beneath her and leans forward on the table. 'Do you like Ryan?' she asks Ni...
JENNIFER E. SMITH I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her livi...
DAVE FRANCO I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her ...
JAMES JOYCE For Lucie," Peter said quietly, the flame of a gilded saint's candle fluttering in his hand."
"...
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact
which made the first years of ...
HELEN KELLER Whether or not there was room in her life for Tamani, Laurel knew that there was precious little roo...
APRILYNNE PIKE I think that if you have a horse, pegasus, qilin, or unicorn, you should sit on it! You should strok...
C. JOYBELL C. Current relationship status?” Her voice cut like an arctic chill blowing through the room.
�...
JUS ACCARDO I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment ...
SUSAN ORLEAN ...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its ca...
ROBERT GREENE I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
LIBBA BRAY No!” Lada shook her head, eyes still wild. “I cannot go in there! If a woman enters the harem co...
KIERSTEN WHITE So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into yo...
NEIL GAIMAN Like many faeries she knew, he was sculpture-perfect, but instead of being wrought of shadows like t...
MELISSA MARR I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I...
CHARLIE WATTS I hope she has food in her cage,
JENNIFER NELSON Ô, the wine of a woman
from heaven is sent,
more perfect than all
that a man can in...
ROMAN PAYNE My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all.
MARCIA CLARK How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how...
JODI PICOULT Goddamn Summerset. I've told him to leave my car when I park it."

"I think he did." Peabo...
J.D. ROBB Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...
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I clappe...
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"Now you know h...
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ILONA ANDREWS My point is, I would never hurt you or your family.”
I raised my chin at him. “If you tried...
ILONA ANDREWS This is payback, isn't it?" Jim glared at me. "Don't be ridiculous," I told him. "As the Consort of ...
ILONA ANDREWS Look, he isn’t even concerned.”
I poured the tea. “He’s concerned, Mother. He just does...
ILONA ANDREWS Why were you in a vehicle with Kate, alone? What were you wearing? What was she wearing? How long we...
ILONA ANDREWS Enough," Curran said. An unmistakable command saturated his voice. Jim clicked his mouth shut. I cro...
ILONA ANDREWS Who snitched?"
"We have people monitoring police radio frequencies. They gave Jim a heads-up in...
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ILONA ANDREWS I know it's late, but could you find a book for me? It's called The Slavs: Study of Pagan Tradition ...
ILONA ANDREWS You know anything about investigative work?"
"Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt p...
ILONA ANDREWS An evil spark flared in his eyes. "Trade: raccoon for some answers.
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ILONA ANDREWS Kaldar smiled at her. Now there was a work of art. If she were just a girl and he were just a man, a...
ILONA ANDREWS She was pretty sure that if you died in the South, you'd have a layover in Atlanta before you reache...
ILONA ANDREWS You enjoyed it. It made you feel alive. You were looking kind of green."

You bastard....
ILONA ANDREWS When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you...
ILONA ANDREWS Breaking into the house in the middle of the night just wasn't his style. He did his best work in pl...
ILONA ANDREWS The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze.
A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plat...
ILONA ANDREWS Audrey turned to him, a sly little spark hiding in her eyes. "THe only man who gets to call me'love'...
ILONA ANDREWS Oh, I don't know. I might grow on you."
She furrowed her pretty eyebrows. "Like a cancer?"
ILONA ANDREWS Did I ever tell you that you are like sunshine in the middle of the night?
ILONA ANDREWS I need you to get down there, open the stalls inside, and panic the horses.”
“ ‘Panic’?...
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"No, just breathing hard, love." He glanced at he...
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ILONA ANDREWS Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar awa...
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ILONA ANDREWS Oh, so it was a lifesaving kiss."

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ILONA ANDREWS Well, shit," Dobe said. "I guess you're familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its hou...
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ILONA ANDREWS Grandpa?" Declan raised his eyebrows.
"We keep him in the shed out back," Jack said helpfully. ...
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"Um.....
ILONA ANDREWS She surveyed the carnage behind him. "Did you have fun?"
He showed her his teeth. "Yes.
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ILONA ANDREWS He had the prettiest hair she had ever seen on a man: dark brown, almost black, and soft like sable,...
ILONA ANDREWS You said he was a soldier. You don't suppose...?"
"Oh, Gods." Ignata blinked. "You think someth...
ILONA ANDREWS It depends. If I don't let you in, will you huff and puff and blow my house down?"
She had no ...
ILONA ANDREWS Oh, Gods."
His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a com...
ILONA ANDREWS Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black...
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ILONA ANDREWS How is it different?"
He rolled his head back, sable hair falling down on his shoulders. "With ...
ILONA ANDREWS Shane lowered his glasses on his nose and gave me his version of a severe stare.
I leaned a lit...
ILONA ANDREWS You'll lose."
"What makes you so sure?"
"You have no discipline. All you do is tear down s...
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ILONA ANDREWS Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim.
ILONA ANDREWS You sure you don't need your Prince Charming to come and save you?"
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"That's ...
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ILONA ANDREWS Kate Daniels, deadly swordmaster. Fear my twitching pinkie.
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ILONA ANDREWS I'm counting to ten in my head."
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ILONA ANDREWS Secret to what?"
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ILONA ANDREWS I've read your summary."
"And?"
"It's not incompetent."
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ILONA ANDREWS I'll call you," he repeated.
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"You will wait b...
ILONA ANDREWS I flexed my wrist, popped a silver needle into my palm, and offered it to him.
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ILONA ANDREWS And then what?"
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ILONA ANDREWS Sit your ass down, Don Juanabe," Derek said.
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ILONA ANDREWS Okay, pull me up."
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ILONA ANDREWS Say 'pop.'"
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Derek gave him a withering look.
"...
ILONA ANDREWS Desandra shrugged her shoulders. "Hey, Kate? Have you thought of walking up to Hugh and telling him ...
ILONA ANDREWS Put your badass faces on and follow me.
ILONA ANDREWS Her face looked like it would shatter any second.
ILONA ANDREWS One day I'll kill him, you know.
I glanced at her. She was deadly serious.
ILONA ANDREWS Andrea raised her eyebrows. "Look at you, all high-speed."
"Yeah, you'd think I was a detective...
ILONA ANDREWS She put her hands over her face. Ah crap. What do I do now? Do I say something, do I not say somethi...
ILONA ANDREWS Andrea, in less than twelve hours, Atlanta will be full of demons. They will kill, feed, and release...
ILONA ANDREWS Are you happy?
When I can get out of my own way.
And the rest of the time?
The rest o...
ILONA ANDREWS Who is there with you?"

"Raphael"

Kate's voice snapped. "I'll be in Atlanta in...
ILONA ANDREWS Derek, you just don't say things like that to a woman. Keep going this way and you'll spend your lif...
ILONA ANDREWS We can do subtle," I assured her.
"It's our middle name," Andrea added.
For some odd reaso...
ILONA ANDREWS He glued the chair to my ass."
Silence.
"Is it still...attached?"
"I can't get it off...
ILONA ANDREWS Who is Hunter Becker?"
"Becker the Gory? Lighthouse Keepers? Boston?"
"I would've preferre...
ILONA ANDREWS We don't need teenage bouda sex fiends as interns.
How do you know he is a sex fiend?
He i...
ILONA ANDREWS Would you like to work here with me?
We have no clients and the pay is shit.
ILONA ANDREWS Aha," Andrea said. "I'm going to ignore that you just referred to yourself as 'sugar woogums'.
ILONA ANDREWS What do you mean fainted?
Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after...
ILONA ANDREWS I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I ...
ILONA ANDREWS Are you sure you know where you're going?" Andrea frowned.
"Would you like me to pull over and ...
ILONA ANDREWS It’s your duty as my best friend to be outraged with me.”
“I’m outraged!” I snarled....
ILONA ANDREWS I have a serious question."

"I will give a serious answer."

"Can a god be kill...
ILONA ANDREWS I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board
ILONA ANDREWS The dark scary servant of all evil was on his way to rescue me. Somehow that thought failed to make ...
ILONA ANDREWS Your favorite volhv showed up half an hour ago, complaining about his lack of sleep and stupid gods....
ILONA ANDREWS Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers.
ILONA ANDREWS The door swung open and Kate walked in. Her jeans and T-shirt were splattered with blood and she was...
ILONA ANDREWS My mind struggled to formulate a coherent though, any thought. I opened my mouth. "Your pajamas have...
ILONA ANDREWS Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.
ILONA ANDREWS I was so happy to be out of there. “Barabas, if you weren’t batting
for the other team, I�...
ILONA ANDREWS I gave him my Order smile: sweet grin, hard eyes, reached over to my passenger seat, and pulled out ...
ILONA ANDREWS You think this is some sort of comedy going on here?” Collins gave him his tough stare.
A lit...
ILONA ANDREWS Bad days, good days, ‘I’ll cut you if you look at me the wrong way’ days. I’ll take them all...
ILONA ANDREWS You’re touching me,” I chided him.
He caressed my back, sliding his hand down, hitting eve...
ILONA ANDREWS Raphael turned me over and looked at me, his face close to mine. "You and I will never be done.You'r...
ILONA ANDREWS Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?”

“I’m not imp...
ILONA ANDREWS Kate stood by the door with her arms crossed.
That was an anti-Curran pose. What the hell was t...
ILONA ANDREWS Someone pounded on the office door. Barabas moved to the door, slid aside the metal shutter covering...
ILONA ANDREWS My tablecloth was missing in action and long, jagged scratches covered the table's surface.The scrat...
ILONA ANDREWS Since we’re playing that game… I tilted my face up to his and gave him a lovesick gaze.
“...
ILONA ANDREWS The rage of the Beast Lord was a terrible thing to behold. Some people stormed, some punched things,...
ILONA ANDREWS At first glance you looked at Kate and thought “fighter,” maybe merc. Five inches taller than me...
ILONA ANDREWS Curran and Kate stood by the door.
“I can’t believe you decided to come down here and check...
ILONA ANDREWS You’re the most experienced investigator I’ve got who’s not tied up in something, and I can’...
ILONA ANDREWS Kate smirked.
"What?"
"Your horse looks pink."
"So?"
"If you paste some stars on...
ILONA ANDREWS It’s never a good thing when the black volhv says “Uh-oh” and then runs for his life.
ILONA ANDREWS Our standard rate. A doubloon a day."
It was generous. More than generous--some families would ...
ILONA ANDREWS So, regarding that tidbit about your having a fertile imagination when it comes to private activitie...
ILONA ANDREWS Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring...
ILONA ANDREWS The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell a...
ILONA ANDREWS Fuck the pack. I gave them fifteen years of my life. I fought for them, bled for them, and the momen...
ILONA ANDREWS Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it!
ILONA ANDREWS I'm welding the bimbo room shut.
ILONA ANDREWS Was his body made out of orange rocks and did he at any point yell 'It's clobbering time'?"
"I ...
ILONA ANDREWS You should name him Fezzik."
"Inconceivable.
ILONA ANDREWS