Tana Bach Quotes

#1. I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.

Holly Black

#2. 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.

Holly Black

#3. 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?

Holly Black

#4. There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would it be like if I were a werewolf?'

Glen Duncan

#5. During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Now that Democrats control the White House and Congress, the left treats dissent as the lowest form of treason.

Monica Crowley

#6. You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself.
'Not yet, not yet.

Holly Black

#7. I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.

David R. Brower

#8. I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.

Mark McGwire

#9. 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.

Holly Black

#10. 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.

Holly Black

#11. Her screams spiraled up into the night air

Holly Black

#12. No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Maya Angelou

#13. 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?

Holly Black

#14. If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.

Lewis Hine

#15. He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.

Holly Black

#16. Heil Hitler," he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, "Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon.

John Boyne

#17. Please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Holly Black

#18. Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.

Holly Black

#19. The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too.

Gregg Sulkin

#20. Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?

Jenna Elfman

#21. In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.

Holly Black

#22. I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.

Elin Nordegren

#23. Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

Holly Black

#24. 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.

Holly Black

#25. Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

Charles Frahman

#26. He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. Sorry. I-I didn't mean to. I just- I've been lying here for hours, thinking about blood.

Holly Black

#27. Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No."
"Leave me," said Gavriel.
... "Shut up or I might," she told him.

Holly Black

#28. She came out of sleep like a thunderclap - waking from dreams so deep and dark that she couldn't remember anything but dirt and hands pulling her down into graves with cities inside them.

Holly Black