Quotes from book

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“When we turn, is there something shoved inside of us or is it more that something inside of us has been released?”

“You are more dangerous than daybreak.”

“One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.”

“They wore their strange beauty like war paint.”

“If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.”

“Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.”

“Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.”

“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.”

“Death’s favorites don’t die.”

“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”

“The Lady or The Tiger,'
…
'My lady, the tiger”

“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.”

“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.”

“Every plan is a house of cards.”

“Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?”

“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”

“Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.”

“If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.”

“There is nothing for her beyond those gates," Gavriel said. "Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?”