Holly Black, The Coldest Girl In Coldtown Quotes
Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.
Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.
Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me.
She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes, " he said finally.
Remember that I’m still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won’t let you out.
When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining.
When we turn, is there something shoved inside of us or is it more that something inside of us has been released?
You're yourself, " Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.
Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.
That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did.
I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?
His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before.
please, Tana, please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.
You said you were allowed to lose it, ' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.
Be careful, " Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?
Little mouse, " a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death - Walt Whitman
People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.
