“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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“For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it.”
― Allie Brosh, quote from Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
“Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.”
― Anne Lamott, quote from Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“Oil painting, before anything else, was a celebration of private property. As an art-form it derived from the principle that you are what you have.”
― John Berger, quote from Ways of Seeing
“You never wear red to no funeral; red says the dead person was a fool.”
― Greg Iles, quote from The Quiet Game
“Lex, do you think, six weeks without you, I didn’t learn my fuckin’ lesson?” She blinked. He kept going. “I learned, baby. Lived raw for six fuckin’ weeks, wasting my own goddamned life and yours. Downloading on-line divorce papers…” He shook his head, not going back there. Not fucking there. Doing that shit cost him too much, he couldn’t go back there. So he finished, “Fuck yeah, I learned.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Lady Luck
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