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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
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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.Holly Black
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I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him.Holly Black
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People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.Holly Black
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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
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They wore their strange beauty like war paint.Holly Black
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death - Walt WhitmanHolly Black
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Little mouse, " a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?Holly Black
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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
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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.Holly Black
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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
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Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm not going to repay that by-" she hesitated, then frowned. "What did you call him?" "That's his name, " Aidan sighed, "Gavriel. The other vampires, while they were tying me to the bed, they said his name." "Oh." With a final tug she pulled the blanked free and tossed it over to 'Gavriel .Holly Black
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I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.Holly Black
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I'm sorry, ' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm sorry I was asleep. I'm sorry I didn't save you and now I'm taking your things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.Holly Black
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You said you were allowed to lose it, ' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.Holly Black
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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
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In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.Holly Black
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Please, Tana, please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in ColdtownHolly Black
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 who didn't breathe, who could be as still as any statue. His chest neither rose not fell. Her hands shook.Holly Black
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Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.Holly Black
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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
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Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying, too. They cried while they ate their cereal, cried while they watched cartoons, and cried themselves to sleep at night, huddled together in Tana's little bed. 'Make her stop' Pearl said, but Tana couldn't.Holly Black
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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
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When we turn, is there something shoved inside of us or is it more that something inside of us has been released?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.Holly Black
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She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hades, pomegranate seeds bursting against her teeth, juice rolling on her tongue, and the more she had, the more she hungered.Holly Black
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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
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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
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She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since- I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me.Holly Black