181 quotes found
“please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”
“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.”
“There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe”
“In those stories, one is often asked to do something unimaginably terrible to the creature. Cut off it's head, say. A test. Not a test of love. A test of trust. Trust lifts the spell.”
“Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.”
“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...”
“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?”
“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.”
“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,...”
“His wax-white skin was cool to the touch when she brushed his neck to find the knot of cloth. She'd never been this close to a vampire,never realized what it would be like to be so near to someone ...”
“I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria.But actually trusting someone w...”
“Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase."I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk."They're for you.""You want me to look homeless,...”
“The inside is packed with people. Lots of them crowding the bar, passing drinks back for people to carry to tables. A bunch of guys are pouring shots of vodka."To Zacharov!" one toasts."To open hea...”
“Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.”
“Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.”
“The only way to end grief was to go through it.”
“The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms,...”
“I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.”
“Ben was taking her through the storm of grief. He was singing her through the rage and despair. He was singing her through the terrible loneliness, because there was no way to shut off grief, no wa...”
“Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.”
