The Coldest Girl In Coldtown Quotes

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

Holly Black

#2. 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

#3. We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases

Thomas Browne

#4. It came to her, all of a sudden, the words he'd said to her in Lance's house.
If I'm hurt, you must be very careful. No, Tana, you must listen. You must be careful of me.
He hadn't been worried he was going to get hurt. He'd been worried that he was going to hurt someone else.

Holly Black

#5. Maybe if we wrap some of those around you, then even if the blanket slips, you won't burn. We can duct-tape it together. As long as you don't mind looking ridiculous."
The vampire smiled a closemouthed smile.

Holly Black

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

Holly Black

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

Holly Black

#8. Gazing at her for a long moment with something like horror, as though he was seeing her for the first time, he spoke. "You are more dangerous than daybreak."
Before Tana could reply, he stepped into the lengthening shadows of morning and was gone.

Holly Black

#9. He smiled, a real smile, the kind real boys gave real girls. "It's been a very long time since anyone worried for me.

Holly Black

#10. They have a friend - " Tana began.
"I have a friend, too," said Gavriel. "And I mean to kill him.

Holly Black

#11. Her screams spiraled up into the night air

Holly Black

#12. 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

#13. If one of the people who'd gone Cold drank human blood, the infection mutated. It killed the host and then raised them back up again, Colder than before. Cold through and through, forever and ever.

Holly Black

#14. 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

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

Holly Black

#16. Haven't you watched the feeds?" Winter asked her, more gently. "Vampires like anything and everything that keeps them from getting bored. Anything and everything."

Holly Black

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. He reached into the bag and drew out an odd array of manga, ripped paperbacks of books both classic and modern, and a small stack of crumpled magazines. See, I even brought some things to read aloud. I wasn't sure what you'd like, so there's a bit of everything.

Holly Black

#20. 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

#21. The Thorn of Istra, her mind supplied. That's the Thorn of Istra.
Lots. He's killed lots and lots and lots.

Holly Black

#22. She made her voice as firm as possible. "Don't let them catch you."
He hesitated, clearly surprised by her words. Then he smiled again, inclining his head in a shallow bow, acknowledging everything she'd left unsaid. "Traveling with you was a delight worth any delay, but I can delay no longer.

Holly Black

#23. Seems like Death came back for me."
He grinned, a subtly odd grin that somehow made her smile back. "You drove him off again. Sleep, Tana. I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him. We have been adversaries for so long that we are closer than friends.

Holly Black

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Aidan pulled against his bonds. "They keep talking to him in a whole bunch of languages. A lot of French. Something about the Thorn of Istra. I think he's in trouble."
"Are you?" Tana asked.
"Not exactly," said Gavriel.

Holly Black

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

Charles Frahman

#28. She had shrieked and shrieked for her mother, but her mother was already there. Her mother was the monster.

Holly Black

#29. 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

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

Holly Black

#31. The vampire looked at her in bewilderment. Then he glanced toward the door and his expression grew sly. "If you free me, I could hold them off.

Holly Black

#32. She was unprepared for how much the way into Coldtown looked like a shoddily run DMV.

Holly Black

#33. Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.

Henry Ward Beecher

#34. Maybe like the bat in the birdcage, Gavriel had been waiting for dark, waiting to get out of the chains, drink Aidan's blood, and escape. But when she showed up, he figured he could use them for a ride through daylight, so long as he seemed harmless enough to need saving. A chill crept up her spine.

Holly Black

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

Holly Black