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On the Edge (The Edge, #1) QUOTES

On the Edge (The Edge, #1) QUOTES

1 " I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with the expectation of seducing me into matrimony, and a couple of their mothers came to blows. It was hilari—I mean, dreadful. Simply dreadful. "

― Ilona Andrews , On the Edge (The Edge, #1)

2 " Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place. "

― Ilona Andrews , On the Edge (The Edge, #1)

3 " It's awful to be rich and mind-boggingly handsome and have women fawn over you. My heart bleeds for you. Poor dear, how do you manage? "

― Ilona Andrews , On the Edge (The Edge, #1)

4 " She handed him a glass of water and two Aleve gelcaps. “They’re anti-inflammatories. They will dull the pain a little bit and keep down swelling and redness. Swallow the pills, don’t chew.”
“Well, I thought I’d stick them into my nose and impersonate a walrus, but if you insist, I’ll swallow them. "

― Ilona Andrews , On the Edge (The Edge, #1)

5 " 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 (The Edge, #1)

6 " Give me a few minutes.”
“You have time.” He sat in the grass.
“Are you just going to sit there and watch me?”
“Yes. Watching pretty peasant girls is what we poor little rich boys do best.”
“Peasant?”
He shrugged. “You started the name calling. "

― Ilona Andrews , On the Edge (The Edge, #1)

7 " Yes, I'm too mad to punish you right now. We'll talk about it when we get home. Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on dry clothes, and get the guns. We're going to Wal-Mart. "

― Ilona Andrews , On the Edge (The Edge, #1)

8 " The woman frowned. "I probably should have mentioned that annoying habit of letting people come to the wrong conclusions and not correcting them? He got it from me. "

― Ilona Andrews , On the Edge (The Edge, #1)

9 " Her imagination painted Georgie twenty years later, sitting in leg irons before some Broken psychiatrist. "Well, you see, it all started with bubbles... "

― Ilona Andrews , On the Edge (The Edge, #1)

10 " Amy," Elsie Moore said in her crackling voice, her gaze fixed on Declan. "I want you to get me a new bear. A blond one. "

― Ilona Andrews , On the Edge (The Edge, #1)

11 " Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring hikers out in the Broken into thinking he was Bigfoot. "

― Ilona Andrews , On the Edge (The Edge, #1)

12 " Living in your dreams meant bitter disappointment when you woke up. "

― Ilona Andrews , On the Edge (The Edge, #1)

13 " Rose pictured him standing at the boundary of the Ogletree house in that enormous fur cape, with a giant sword sticking over his shoulder, roaring at the top of his lungs and then being upset that nobody came out, and laughed. "

― Ilona Andrews , On the Edge (The Edge, #1)

14 " I mean to have you, Rose, you and all of your thorns. I'm a disagreeable and stubborn bastard, but I'm not a fool. You didn't really expect me to pass you up, did you? "

― Ilona Andrews , On the Edge (The Edge, #1)

15 " 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 (The Edge, #1)

16 " He glanced up. His eyes were pure white. Great, his brights were on, but nobody was driving. "

― Ilona Andrews , On the Edge (The Edge, #1)

17 " He hung his head. “Am I punished?” “Yes. I’m too mad to punish you right now. We’ll talk about it when we get home. Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on dry clothes, and get the guns. We’re going to Wal-Mart. "

― Ilona Andrews , On the Edge (The Edge, #1)

18 " Life is so precious because it's short. Even the most resilient people are fragile. Life isn't about dying or not dying. It's about living well. Living so you can be proud and happy. "

― Ilona Andrews , On the Edge (The Edge, #1)

19 " He let her go almost immediately, but he'd packed so much into that one fierce hug: want, need, worry, reassurance...He'd protect her with his life. Strangely, it made her indignant. Nobody should have to be in the position of having another person give up their life for them. She didn't want the weight of Declan's death. "

― Ilona Andrews , On the Edge (The Edge, #1)

20 " Two pairs of eyes blinked at her from angelic faces: Georgie’s blue and Jack’s amber. Hooligans, both of them. "

― Ilona Andrews , On the Edge (The Edge, #1)