"You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet."
- Holly Black
"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 tol..."
"Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life."
- Charles Frahman
"In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death."
"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."
"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."
"We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases"
- Thomas Browne
"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 ..."