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please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
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books
dark
gavriel
holly-black
literature
paranormal
paranormal-romance
romance
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the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown
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To Ben, love was the flame in which he wanted to be reborn. He wanted to be remade by it.
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Holly Black |
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Don't take it personally," Call said. "Lots of people find me really annoying. It's not just you."
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Holly Black |
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I need your help," says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd accent that might just be how cats sound when they talk."
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Holly Black |
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She's an old lady," Barron says. "And she's been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta."
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Holly Black |
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When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining.
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Holly Black |
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He had green eyes so clear and bright that they made you think of poisonous drinks or maybe mouthwash.
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Christmas is supposed to be this time when everyone is nice to one another and forgives one another and all that, but the true meaning of Christmas is . And in the real world, Santa's not fair. Rich kids get everything and poor kids get secondhand crap their parents bust their asses to afford. It costs money just to sit on Santa's lap.
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Yeah," Tamara said. "An old bowling alley. There must be a town not too far from here. But how could Aaron be there? And don't say something like 'working on his score' or 'maybe he's in a bowling league' or something like that. Be serious." Call leaned against the rough bark of a nearby tree and resisted the urge to sit down. He was afraid he wouldn't be able to get up again. "I'm serious. It might be hard to tell in the dark, but I have m..
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humor
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When we fall that first time, we're not really in love with the girl. We're in love with being in love. We've got no idea what she's really about--or what she's capable of. We're in love with our idea of her and of who we become around her. We're idiots.
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That was the problem with monsters. Sometimes they looked just like everybody else.
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And Barron is probably right--we should give this up. Not for the reason he's saying but for the one that's implied. The one about it not being okay to lurk around outside buildings, spying on girls you like.
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But in all the stories, you have a single chance; and if you miss it, then it's gone. The door isn't there when you go back to look. There is no second invitation to the ball. This is my chance.
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The downside of letting everyone know you're going to be all alone so they can attack you is that everyone knows you'll be all alone so they can attack you.
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I think you impressed him with the sheer force of your stupidity.
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Holly Black |
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I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.
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Holly Black |
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You are nothing. You barely exist at all. Your only purpose is to create more of your kind before you die. He's wrong about me. I am going to make my mayfly life count for something. I won't be afraid of him or of p=Prince Dain's censure. If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse. -Pg. 210
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inspirational
the-cruel-prince
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I hate you because your father loves you even though you're a human brat born to his unfaithful wife, while mine never cared for me, though I am a prince of Faerie. I hate you because Locke used you and your sister to make Nicasia cry after he stole her from me. Besides which, after the tournament, Balekin never failed to throw you in my face as the mortal who could best me.
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The disturbing thing about Cardan is how well he plays the fool to disguise his own cleverness.
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clever
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He hates you. Even if he wants you, he hates you. Maybe he hates you the more for it.
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The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps
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Bob Black |
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I've been kissed Slade. I'm a virgin, not a nun.
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Shayla Black |
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I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
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Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels."
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I don't have the words. I want to touch her, but I don't deserve it.
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The big question of vampires, the question that hunts governments and individuals alike, the question that bug me every night when I see their red eyes watching citizens of Coldtown the ways hungry cats watch fishin a bucket is: what are they? Are they diseased or demonic? Are they humans who have become ill, deserving hospitals and care, as some have argued? Or are they the bodies of our loved ones animated by some dark force that we ought..
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I said ten years, but perhaps seven will be enough. That's not so long. Seven years of drinking poison, of never sleeping, of living on high alert. Seven more years, and then maybe Faerie will be a safer, better land. And I will have earned my place in it. The great game, Locke had called it when he accused me of playing it. I wasn't then, but I am now. And maybe I learned something from Locke. He made me into a story, and now I am going to..
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Everybody dies alone, Jameson said, and kept going. "Not everybody wakes up right after."
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It's hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He's smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.
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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings. She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she'll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.
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I hope to be able to decide for myself - when we turn, is there something shoved inside of us or is it that something inside of us has been released?
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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 way to cast it aside or fight against it. The only way to end grief was to go through it. As she realized that, his song began to change. It grew softer, sweeter, like the morning after a long cry, when your head still hurt but your heart was no lon..
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I don't imagine myself back in a life like theirs; what I imagine is going over there and scaring them until they cry. I would never, of course. I mean, I don't think I would.
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Your family is badass," Sam says. "They set a high bar of badassery."
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Instead, I try to imagine someone she might fall in love with. Maybe it will be a merrow, and he will give her the gift of breathing underwater and a crown of pearls and take her to his bed under the sea. Actually, that sounds amazing. Maybe I am making all the wrong choices.
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Of course, that was probably a problem with being an Evil Overlord. You didn't regret the right things.
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Get down here before you're recognized." "Playing hide-and-seek under the table? Crouching in the dirt? Typical of your kind, but far beneath my dignity." He laughs unsteadily, like he expects I am going to laugh, too. I don't. I ball up my fist and punch him in the stomach, right where I know it will hurt. He staggers to his knees. The goblet drops to the dirt, making a hollow clanking sound. "Ow!" he shouts, and lets me tug him under th..
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jude
the-cruel-prince
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Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won't be Queen for long."
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Kiss me until I am sick of it.
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She fell asleep like a flame being extinguished.
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Nice things don't happen in storybooks,' Taryn says. 'Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.
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fantasy-young-adult
holly-black
the-cruel-prince
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Go ahead. Insult me." His eyebrows go up. "I don't take commands from mortals," he says with his customary cruel smile."
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jude-duarte
prince-cardan
the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
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I want to win. I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them.
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Holly Black |
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I do not understand why he likes me, but it is exciting to be liked.
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