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Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5) QUOTES

Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5) QUOTES

1 " Arabella squinted back. “You’re almost nine months pregnant. Shouldn’t you be soft, and happy, and glowing? When are we gonna see some glow?”

Arabella clearly had a death wish.

Nevada finished her pickle spear and licked honey off her fingertips. “I’m the size of a house, the kid inside me keeps kicking me in the kidneys, I have to pee every five minutes, my legs cramp, and I can’t get out of bed by myself. I have to roll to the side like a walrus, which is harder right now since my husband is somewhere in the Russian Empire and he isn’t there to steady me. And how was your day of being young, beautiful, skinny, and carefree? Why aren’t you glowing? "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

2 " As it happened so often with our species, logical reasoning was discarded in favor of the overpowering need to be right, facts and consequences be damned. "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

3 " Leon had pestered me during dinner one night, I lost control, and the black wings made their debut. The family was stunned into silence for a whole thirty seconds. And then everyone called me Goth Princess for a week and Arabella kept leaving vampire novels by my door. "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

4 " Life is full of surprises,” he said. “Try to cope with grace. "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

5 " Neither did I, but unlike Leon, I would be highly unlikely to shoot each of them through the left eye “for symmetry reasons. "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

6 " Stephen spared her a look that was part patience and part condescension. “I’m a Chinese American, so of course I spend all my free time in a secret monastery learning kung fu and practicing spiritual cultivation. Because one day a demon king shall descend onto Houston and only my Ninth Level Thunder Fist Punch will stand in his way. "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

7 " Things would be so easy if it wasn’t for feelings. "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

8 " Your ego would survive an apocalypse.” “Thank you.” “It wasn’t a compliment.” “It was to me. "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

9 " Humble is for losers. I am a winner. "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

10 " I won’t let him hurt you.” His voice, so suffused with rage a moment ago, was ice cold now, measured and calm, and the determination in his eyes scared me more than his anger. “I’ll kill anyone who tries to end your life. I’ll answer any question you ask. I’ll pay any price to keep you alive. Let me protect you. "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

11 " Living things have minds. Animated things have matrixes. "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

12 " The relationship might have meant nothing to him, but it was my first. I hadn’t known it was necessary to guard myself against committing completely. I didn’t realize it was doomed from the start. I just fell in love. "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

13 " We had accepted this job pro bono, because snatching a service animal from a child in a wheelchair was a heinous act and someone had to make it right. "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

14 " I was mourning the old me. For the new me to emerge, the old me had to disappear, and killing her bit by bit hurt. "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

15 " Why would you want to shoot him?” “He broke your heart. You were miserable for weeks.” “I broke my own heart, Leon. He was just the hammer I hit it with.” Leon raised his eyebrows. “That’s deep, Catalina. "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

16 " My mom once told me that the American Dream was to live better than your parents.” “Do you think it’s true?” he asked. “I think everyone defines better differently. Some want more money. Others want more time. "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

17 " Victoria leaned forward. “Never trust an altruist. Humans are selfish creatures. The only people who give away money either haven’t earned it or are trying to buy prestige or absolution with it. She has prestige. What has she done that she needs to atone so badly? "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

18 " I broke my own heart, Leon. He was just the hammer I hit it with. "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

19 " Arabella screamed like a pterodactyl and demanded to know where Alessandro was staying, while punching her palm with her fist. Bern swore, which had happened exactly six times since he came to live with us. Grandma Frida promised to hit Alessandro with a wrench when he came over. Leon produced a gun, and then Mom asked him what the rule was about guns at the dinner table, and then he said that this was a special case and he had a bullet with Alessandro’s name on it. Then she told him that writing names on bullets was no way to go through life. "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

20 " Once I mentioned Alessandro, the family had ganged up on me. Arabella screamed like a pterodactyl and demanded to know where Alessandro was staying, while punching her palm with her fist. Bern swore, which had happened exactly six times since he came to live with us. Grandma Frida promised to hit Alessandro with a wrench when he came over. Leon produced a gun, and then Mom asked him what the rule was about guns at the dinner table, and then he said that this was a special case and he had a bullet with Alessandro’s name on it. Then she told him that writing names on bullets was no way to go through life. "

― Ilona Andrews , Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)