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Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4) QUOTES

Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4) QUOTES

1 " Sophie raised her head. Light filtering through the trees dappled her face. “Hawk.”
Charlotte looked up as well. A bird of prey soared above the treetops, circling around them.
“It’s dead,” Sophie said. “George is guiding it. He is very powerful.”The realization washed over Charlotte in a cold gush of embarrassment.
“Is George spying on Richard and me?”
“Always,” Sophie said.
“All those perfect manners are a sham. He spies on everyone and everything. Declan hasn’t been able to conduct a single business meeting in the past year without George’s knowing all the details. He does let go when you make love. He is a prude.”
“‘Prude’ is a coarse word. He has a sense of tact,” Charlotte corrected before she caught herself.
“A sense of tact,” Sophie repeated, tasting the words.
“Thank you. The other one is somewhere around here, too.”
“The other one?”
Sophie surveyed the woods. “I can smell you, Jack!”
“No, you can’t,” a distant voice answered "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

2 " It seems that we had...not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think. "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

3 " If she died as a result of this journey, it wouldn't be because of slavers. It would be because Richard's inability to communicate would give her a heart attack. "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

4 " Kaldar almost never stops and thinks about the consequences of his actions. Something is fun or not fun, and my brother’s fun often lands him in interesting places such as jails or castles belonging to California robber barons. Where other people see certain death, my brother sees an opportunity for a hilarious, thrilling adventure. But when I got the tattoo, Kaldar warned me that marrying her was a bad idea. "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

5 " Is he a scumbag in training?” Richard glanced at the gunman. “At least have the decency to hold the gun properly, you fool. If you don’t know how, pass it to someone who does. I’m not going to suffer being shot at by anything less than a full- fledged lowlife. (Richard) "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

6 " The idiot had shot their own dog. That’s what happened when the destructive potential of a man’s weapons exceeded his intelligence. "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

7 " Having a fling with you doesn't appeal to me. You're handsome, but you're too inexperienced to be good in bed. Having ridden many horses doesn't make you a good rider; it just proves that you can't recognize a good one or don't know how to keep her. "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

8 " She was beautiful and radiant. He remembered the concern in her eyes. The same concern drove her now, pushing her toward acts of violence. On the surface, he'd be a fool to turn her down. She was driven by tragedy, just like him, and she would be incorruptible, just like him. He needed a blade to kill, but she could kill dozens at once empty-handed. She was Death, and she had just asked to be his ally. "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

9 " I'd appreciate it if in the future when you come up with a plan that makes a hardened criminal pause, you could at least give me the gist of it ahead of time. In broad strokes. "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

10 " Voshak's hair, a pale blond braid, which he bleached, was his trademark. It made him memorable. That's how the slavers operated. They adopted costumes and personas, trying to make themselves larger-than-life and hoping to inspire fear. They counted on that fear. One could fight a man, but nobody could fight a nightmare. "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

11 " We Draytons are many things: pirates, witches, rogues...but nobody ever accused us of being ungrateful. A family has to have standards. Even in the Edge. "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

12 " Your body belongs to you alone. Touching it is a privilege, and it’s up to you to grant it. "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

13 " Having a fling with you doesn’t appeal to me. You’re handsome, but you’re too inexperienced and too arrogant to be good in bed. Having ridden many horses doesn’t make you a good rider; it just proves that you can’t recognize a good one or don’t know how to keep her. You’re too young for me, and in ten years, when you improve, I will be too old for you. So let’s not speak of this again.” A thin, high-pitched sound came from the wall. Miko was snickering. "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

14 " You rose because hundreds of years ago, when a woman entered a room full of men, she wasn’t exactly safe. Especially if she was beautiful or had holdings. Our magic is just as deadly, but physically, an average male is stronger than an average woman, so when a woman entered the room, men who knew her stood up to indicate that they would shield her from danger. The three of you just declared yourself my protectors.” They "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

15 " Having a fling with you doesn’t appeal to me. You’re handsome, but you’re too inexperienced and too arrogant to be good in bed. Having ridden many horses doesn’t make you a good rider; it just proves that you can’t recognize a good one or don’t know how to keep her. You’re too young for me, and in ten years, when you improve, I will be too old for you. So let’s not speak of this again. "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

16 " The rim of the cup shuddered. Her fingers were shaking. "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

17 " People can share in the joke. Nobody can share in your anguish. "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

18 " Being a blueblood isn't just knowing the rules. It's knowing the precisely correct thing to do in every situation, then doing it with unshakable entitlement. "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

19 " Congratulations," he said, his voice dry. "You finally managed to find a woman as tragically noble as yourself. I didn't think one existed."
"I'm not tragic."

Kaldar held up his hand. "Spare me. Some children are born wearing a silk shirt; you were born wrapped in melancholy. When they slapped you to make you cry, you just sighed heavily and a single tear rolled from your eye." He dragged his finger from the corner of his left eye to his cheek. " Your first words were probably 'woe is me.'"
"My first words were 'Kaldar, shut up!' because you talked too much. Still do. "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)

20 " Your definition of ‘well’ is troubling at best.” He suddenly smiled and affected a slight accent. “‘I do not think that word means what you think it means.’”
He was obviously quoting something he and Jason seemed to know that she did not.
Jason grinned. “Ha, she ain’t a princess, and you wish you were that good a swordsman. "

― Ilona Andrews , Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4)