Quotes from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Every hero is the villain of his own story.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“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.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“You are more dangerous than daybreak.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and how good people got hurt because of their decisions? Don't they recall the moments they weren't heroic at all? The moments where their heroism led to more deaths than deliberate villainy ever could?”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“They wore their strange beauty like war paint.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“So I'm scared, because you're not just not human, you're not like anyone....there's nobody like you in all the world and it's you I want. I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“I promise I will repay you.”
“Oh yeah?” she asked, looking at him, with his bare feet and plain, dark clothes. “With what?”
The smile stayed on his lips. “Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of things long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“But there's nothing you like better than when it hurts a little, is there?" Lucien asked.

Gavriel's bloody mouth lifted in a voluptuous smile. "Sure there is. I like it when it hurts a lot.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Every plan is a house of cards.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Being
infected, being a vampire, it’ s always you. Maybe it’ s more you than ever before. It’ s you as you
always were, deep down inside.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“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.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we're stripped bare. Being infected, being a vampire, it's always you. Maybe it's more you than ever before. You, distilled. You, boiled down like a sauce. But it's you as you always were, deep down inside.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“I left mad behind a long time ago. The world it is the way it is.I can only fix my little piece of it”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“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, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“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.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

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“I learned an amazing way to demonstrate the effectiveness of positive versus negative thinking from Jack Canfield, President of Self-Esteem Seminars, which I now use in my workshops. I ask someone to come up and stand facing the rest of the class. After making sure the person has no problems with her (or his) arms, I ask my volunteer to make a fist and extend either arm out to the side. I then tell her to resist, with as much strength as she can muster, as I stand facing her and attempt to push her arm down with my outstretched hand. Not once have I succeeded in pushing her arm down on my initial trial. I then ask her to put her arm down, close her eyes and repeat ten times the negative statement “I am a weak and unworthy person.” I tell her really to get into the feel of that statement. When she has repeated the statement ten times, I ask her to open her eyes and extend her arm again exactly as she had before. I remind her to resist as hard as she can. Immediately, I am able to bring down her arm. It is as though all strength has left her. I wish I could record the expressions on my volunteers’ faces when they find it impossible to resist my pressure. A few have made me do it again. “I wasn’t ready!” is their plea. Lo and behold, the same thing happens on the second try—the arm goes right down with little resistance. They are dumbfounded. I then ask the volunteer once again to close her eyes, and repeat ten times the positive statement “I am a strong and worthy person.” Again I tell her to really get into the feeling of the words. Once again I ask her to extend her arm and resist my pressure. To her amazement (and everyone else’s) I cannot budge the arm. In fact, it is more steadfast than the first time I tried to push it down. If I continue interspersing positive with negative, the same results occur. I can push the arm down after the negative statement, I am not able to push it down after the positive statement. By the way—for you skeptics out there—I tried this experiment when I was unaware of what the volunteer was saying. I left the room, and the class decided whether the statement should be negative or positive. It didn’t matter. Weak words meant a weak arm. Strong words meant a strong arm.”
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“Gloria put a bowl of stew in Peter's hands. "Eat," she said.

Peter raised the spoon to his lips. He chewed. He swallowed.

It had been a long time since he had eaten anything besides tiny fish and old bread.

And so when Peter had his first bite of stew, it overwhelmed him. The warmth of it, the richness of it, knocked him backward; it was as if a gentle hand had pushed him when he was not expecting it. Everything he had lost came flooding back: the garden, his father, his mother, his sister, the promises that he had made and could not keep.

"What's this?" said Gloria Matienne. "The boy is crying."

"Shhh," said Leo. He put his hand on Peter's shoulder. "Shhh. Don't worry, Peter. Everything will be good. All will be well. We will do together whatever it is that needs to be done. But for now, you must eat."

Peter nodded. He raised his spoon. Again he chewed and swallowed, and again he was overcome. He could not help it. He could not stop the tears; they flowed down his cheeks and into the bowl. "It is a very good stew, Madam Matienne. he managed to say. "Truly, it is an excellent stew.”
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